"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."
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"If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company."
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"Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse."
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"We are convinced, as some of you may be convinced, that changing the way we produce and use energy is essential to America's economic future, that it will create millions of new jobs, power new industries, keep us competitive, and spark new innovation."
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"An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction."
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"To innovate is not to reform."
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"We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before."
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"I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation."
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"I think markets are mechanisms that determine prices that are necessary for mass heterogenous populations, and markets do generate levels of technological innovation and productivity that is crucial. But when unregulated, they often generate levels of vast inequality and ugly isolation that makes it difficult for people to relate and connect with one another."
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"Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs."
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"On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20 years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy."
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"Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation."
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"Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace."
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"Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases, that are an exception. If you could cure Alzheimer's, if you could avoid diabetes - those are gigantic in terms of saving money. But the incentive regime doesn't favor them."
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"Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game."
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"Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed."
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"Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!"
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"Invention breeds invention."
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"Where there is no vision a people perish."
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"The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind."
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