Innovation

“It seems that as the turbine is the most efficient prime mover known, it will be developed for aircraft.”

“My interest in aircraft propulsion began in the fall of 1933.”

“Certainly no 20 years in the history of aviation, and probably no 20 years in the future, will show such a succession of basic changes…as did the period of 1948–1968.”

“We have to use our ingenuity, use our sheer brains and imagination to find ways that take resources that are there and put them to work.”

“The patent system plays an essential role for the innovator in preventing others pirating his ideas before he has had time to perfect them.”

“For society to thrive, we need to level the playing field so that companies can compete and collaborate to make solutions delivered through technology as affordable as possible.”

“I have never seen the two as separate.”

“Every time we were able to bring the cost down by a factor of ten, we would invade a new market, and we would disrupt an existing market.”

“I believe the next Google can be developed in the Caribbean.”

“My interest in aircraft propulsion began in the fall of 1933 while I was a student at the Georgia Augusta University of Gottingen.”

“When we released open source, it was sort of a secret weapon.”

“O inventamos o erramos.”

“From the feasibility standpoint, the prospects for space exploration were never more practical.”

“It felt like alchemy, converting black to gold.”

“Conservative banks belong to the past.”

“Korea is one of the very few countries in the world that has its own search engine.”

“What was good for records was good for broadcasting; and what was good for broadcasting will be as certainly good for talkies.”

“We have got to harness a culture of enterprise and co-operation rather than a culture of envy and looking back.”