I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'
Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
The key is to embrace disruption and change early. Don't react to it decades later. You can't fight innovation.
Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.
Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.
I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.
Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.
Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.