Innovation Quotes

"One of the most fundamental points is that there's no such thing as a good or bad idea regardless of price " "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late" "Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you the edge" "No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long-term if you don’t have a sufficiently good product" "Our industry does not respect tradition, it only respects innovation." "Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future." "The coming wave is defined by two core technologies: artificial intelligence (AI) and synthetic biology" "The irony of general-purpose technologies is that, before long, they become invisible and we take them for granted" "Over time, then, the implications of these technologies will push humanity to navigate a path between the poles of catastrophe and dystopia. This is the essential dilemma of our age" "From the written word to sailing vessels, technology increases interconnectedness, helping to boost its own flow and spread. Each wave hence lays the groundwork for successive waves" "Throughout history, population size and innovation levels are linked" "Proliferation is catalyzed by two forces: demand and the resulting cost decreases, each of which drives technology to become even better and cheaper" "Consider that children who grew up traveling by horse and cart and burning wood for heat in the late nineteenth century spent their final days traveling by airplane and living in houses warmed by the splitting of the atom" "No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people" "Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea"