Rapid Innovation Quotes

People in the high-tech sector are living with change every hour. They can get up in the morning and find themselves behind already.

You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents.

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

We don't have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you'd find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.

… the time scale of one scientific generation is much too long for the rapid pace of experimental discovery.

What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.

That's the one drawback of trying to keep up with technology, is that it changes quicker than films can come out.

The merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution means new products are being phased in and out so fast that companies cannot afford to wait until the end of the year to figure out whether a team leader is doing a good job.

Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.

What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.

People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working. And so it's created the worldwide software industry that... that is so very competitive and moving so quickly.

The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.

I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!

In the Asian marketplace, we need to come out with products every nine months, not every two years.

Innovation is key. Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive.

Korean people, including me, want to go faster and faster - in music, in fashion, in art, too.

The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners.

Nowadays, ideas can meet and mate very much faster than before, and the Internet is only accelerating this process. So innovation is bound to accelerate.

If you look at the world now its one that we couldn't have imagined in 1997! That I would be able to hit a button and a taxi will show up? We wouldn't have believed that everything is disposable!

Accept that the moment you buy your latest iPad, iPhone, tablet, app or game it will be promptly followed by a vastly improved and sleeker looking version.