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The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.

I think you always have to be innovating and adapting and improving. You can't stay the same.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

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.

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'