Innovation Cost Quotes

The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the cost a lot.

When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution...Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

You have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits. When you look at the companies that have really won customers over in technology - say, Apple and Google - you find that they spend billions of dollars on R&D each year, often spending that much on a product before they ever make a dime back in profits.

Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.

Failure in Innovation - it's a price worth paying.

Every successful competitive practice has victims. The more successful a new method of making and distributing a product, the more victims, the deeper the victims' injury

Permission from the government is an expensive commodity. New ideas rarely have this kind of support. Old ideas often have deep legislative connections to defend them against the new.

The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on a quality basis with an established product.

People think it's great to be ahead of your time, but it can actually be quite painful.

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all.

The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.

Because making movies is such an expensive endeavor, other media such as books and comics have long been a more feasible way to experiment with truly new ideas.

A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay.

Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

Making a new car is so expensive that the risk factor is what takes the unique ideas and keeps reanalyzing them until they become very similar.

We should be willing to spend the money in return for the innovation.