Innovation Driver Quotes

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

Your job as CEO is to be the fastest person of the company.

I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they’ve got a wonderful long-term plan.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. This revolution has produced the most powerful and diverse spur to innovation of any in modern times.

Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front.

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

As the world's largest economy and second-largest carbon emitter, as a country with unsurpassed ability to drive innovation and scientific breakthroughs, as the country that people around the world continue to look to in times of crisis, we've got a vital role to play. We can't stand on the sidelines. We've got a unique responsibility.

Federal research is vital to the innovation that drives our local economy and global competitiveness.

If necessity is the mother of invention, war is the midwife of innovation.

Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.

One very interesting framework for a company to succeed over time - beyond just business logic and analytics - is, do they have a reason why the best graduates in engineering programs will flock to them versus competitors?

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.

At a certain point, the services that you build around the hardware become more important than the hardware itself.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.

Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see - so you have some incentive to run fast.

As a government leader, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines and watch all these other sectors innovate. I'm going to do everything I can as a leader to be in that innovation, to be a provocateur for that innovation.

You need to run the company on an even keel, and you need to be thinking about the company long-term and how to drive your next innovation.

Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.