innovation Quotes

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we'll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Strip malls are history.

Ebooks had to happen.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we'd have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.