Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.

I've been building scratch cars my whole life - my passion is taking something that doesn't exist, creating a concept on a blank piece of paper and making that concept real.

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive.

If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't...

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.

I look forward to trying the Internet.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane's exhaust. A great improvement on a simple ballistic shell, it still cannot discriminate particular...

I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

Intel's a great company, and Microsoft is a great company. Everybody seems to do a lot better when there is competition.

Alan Turing is such an amazing, tragic story.

We personally don't try to follow industry trends or themes. We just try and make something that we think would be cool and we want to make.

America is an invention incubator because we protect new ideas from theft and taxes. In return, our inventors reward us with the countless benefits of innovation.

Prior to Katrina, the South Bronx and New Orleans' Ninth Ward had a lot in common. Both were largely populated by poor people of color, both hotbeds of cultural innovation: think hip-hop and jazz....

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that's where people knew the...

I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have...

I think even in bad times it's good to keep some money going into research. And that's the purpose of the whole space program. It's not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into...

Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and...

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.

I'm from the '80s, man. I got ideas; that's what we do.

There is no progress without risk, and in an environment where change is accelerating, risks are multiplying and businesses are increasingly complex, companies need strong, innovative partners to help...

Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.

When I first got to Apple, which was in '84, the Mac was already out, and 'Newsweek' contacted me and asked me what I thought of the Mac. I said, 'Well, the Mac is the first personal computer good...

Certainly, there are very few wholly original ideas in the world; there are usually people coming to the same conclusions or carrying out experiments, whether publicly or privately.

We created Addepar because we saw a place where a multi-billion dollar global platform clearly should exist - but did not yet - to fix many of the challenges that exist in the finance industry.

I'm happy we're about to start inviting people into the thing we've been working on!! It's called Pinwheel, and it's a way to find and leave notes all around the world.