Innovation

“The biggest thing for me is the fact that it’s inspiring a lot of other people, that’s the thing that keeps me going to this day.”

“I am never particularly interested in doing what I did the last time. I take one thing and work it out a number of ways.”

“You'll never improve as a side unless you try things, but we weren't trying things for the sake of it.”

“They made them strangers in the country of their own birth.”

“There's so much more to building a company than vibe-coding an app over a weekend and saying you're going to take down a big CRM company.”

“I know this isn't your type of thing, but I know that this end result will be a good idea if you just let me cook.”

“My method is to do things I'm afraid of, the things I don't know, to go to territory that nobody's ever been.”

“We are building a state that transforms the world over and over again.”

“I think we’re the Uber of stuff.”

“I often say that starting a company is like jumping off a cliff and building an airplane on the way down.”

“Our industry does not respect tradition — it only respects innovation.”

“If you don’t focus on fundamental research, no translation is possible.”

“The best ideas often appear laughable at first glance.”

“It would be transformative.”

“The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most.”

“It’s all a question of how do you get more tools.”

“The great companies start by defining the problem they’re going to solve, and then everything they do is rooted in that effort.”

“Babbage, and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.”

“When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”