Innovation Skepticism Quotes

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility.

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

When I was at MIT, they had a beta test of Mosaic, the first popular browser. I remember looking at it, and there was a weather map or something. Now, in fairness to me, there weren't any websites then. But I remember saying, 'This is stupid - what's the point?' Now, of course, it's obvious.

One would be forgiven for concluding that the assumed benefits of financial innovation are not all they were cracked up to be.

Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'

I'm a total Luddite when it comes to gadgets and technology.

The iPhone was broadly dismissed. The iPod was broadly dismissed. The iPad was probably more copiously written off as a large iPod.

New technologies are often met with skepticism. But if the world is to continue the remarkable progress of the past few decades, it is vital that scientists, subject to safety and ethics guidelines, be encouraged to continue taking advantage of such promising tools as CRISPR.

My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, 'Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this?'

My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time.

An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.

I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along.