innovation Quotes

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.