innovation Quotes

When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

I grew up reading science fiction.

We need to know what the resources of the moon are. We have great evidence now because of different kinds of radar and spectroscopic analysis that people have been able to do. But we really do need to go visit there, and we can do that with a robot craft without any problem.

The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.