“As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.” IfsShouldPoliticalAbilityLevelsPowerfulAudienceEconomyMediaFieldsSourceInternetShould HaveInnovationCustomersCorporationsEnginesDiscourseSmall BusinessPlaying FieldsForumsBloggersPolitical DiscourseLevel Playing Field Author:Al Franken
“To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.” FirstsHas BeensMadeAgeTodayAmericaSpiritOpportunityTechnologyStreetsCenturyFrontsComputerModelsInnovationOpeningDataGiantsEngines20th CenturyChipsFrontiersPioneersProcessingSiliconOpening UpCyberneticsMain StreetCombustionHigh TechnologyPioneer SpiritModel T Author:Ronald Reagan
“So many people have that kind of attitude and approach to learning that it gives me great hope for the world. I say hope in the sense that innovations in science and technology will be the engines of a 21st century economy and I don't want to go broke, as a nation. So, the hope I have is that, if people embrace it, we'll have a healthier, more secure, wealthier nation than we have.” PeopleIfsWorldWantGivingKindNationsAttitudeTechnologyEconomyCenturyApproachGive MeInnovationEmbraceSecureBrokeEngines21st CenturyScience And TechnologyGreat Hope Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.” PurposeGrowthTechnologyEconomicExampleInnovationEnginesFactoriesElectricityEconomic GrowthSteamComplementaryCascadeSteam EnginesRedesign Author:Erik Brynjolfsson
“Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.” PeopleLeadershipDifferencesCreativityConflictInnovationMirrorsPrimariesStaringEnginesCreativity And Innovation Author:Ronald A. Heifetz
“Startups are the engines of exponential growth, manifesting the power of innovation. Several big companies today are startups of yesterday. They were born with a spirit of enterprise and adventure kept alive due to hardwork and perseverance and today have become shining beacons of innovation.” BigsTodaySpiritGrowthBornCompanyTechnologyAliveAdventureIndiaInnovationShiningPerseveranceDuesYesterdayEnterpriseManifestEnginesInformation TechnologyHardworkBeaconsBig CompaniesExponential Growth Author:Narendra Modi
“I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.” BelieveDoubtDiscoveryInnovationFuelEnginesInquirySkeptic Author:Christopher Hitchens
“Entrepreneurship is the engine fuelling innovation, employment generation and economic growth. Only by creating an environment where entrepreneur- ship can prosper and where entrepreneurs can try new ideas and empower others can we ensure that many of the world’s issues will not go unaddressed.” WorldTryingIdeasGrowthIssuesEnvironmentGenerationsEconomicCreatingInnovationEntrepreneurShipsEmploymentEntrepreneurshipEmpoweringEnginesNew IdeasEconomic Growth Author:Klaus Schwab
“Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will reduce sound private investment. Obama has no real wealth to inject into the economy. He can only move around existing money while inflation robs us of purchasing power. Meanwhile, private investors who might have produced a better engine, battery, computer, cancer treatment or other wealth-creating and life-enhancing innovations hold back for fear that big government will undermine productive efforts.” RealBigsGovernmentMightMovingSoundWealthEffortEconomyAirComputerCreatingInnovationInvestmentCancerProductiveTreatmentInvestorsEnginesReservesInflationBorrowedBatteriesBig GovernmentFederal ReservePurchasingThin AirPurchasing PowerReal WealthCancer Treatment Author:John Stossel
“By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation... Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution.” WayHumansMomentsSpiritCreativityConditionsEvolutionInnovationBlueEnginesDiscontentCreativity And InnovationHuman Evolution Author:Chin-Ning Chu
“You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.” WayTechnologyEconomyCenturyInnovationEngines21st CenturyScience And TechnologyStoke Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.” WorldWayWellsInspirationJobsSpaceCuttingPoliticianProgramInnovationMereBudgetsAgencyExplorationEnginesSpace ExplorationNasa Author:Bill Nye
“Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.” FeelsFirstsMayLongEducationCuttingTeachingLike YouInnovationImpactInvestmentFlyingEnginesAirplaneDeficitOverloadedFlying High Author:Barack Obama
“America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products.” ThinkingTryingMindIdeasAmericaCultureFailingRiskProductsInnovationIndependentFinancialExtremesImmigrationFactorsEnginesSteadyNew IdeasMultitudesVentureBureaucracyEmphasisFreedom Of ThoughtStigmaRisk-takingFinancial MarketsVenture CapitalIndependent ThinkingTrying And Failing Author:Thomas Friedman
“Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities for Americans in every community across the Nation.” JobsOpportunityNationsGrowthCommunityEconomyEconomicCreatingInnovationEnginesExploringSmall BusinessExpandingContributorsContinuous LearningCreating Jobs Author:Allyson Schwartz
“Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.” GrowthEconomicInnovationExplorationEnginesExploringInnovativeEconomic GrowthIdeas And InnovationInnovation And Leadership Author:Edith Widder
“The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.” KindReasonAbleCultureEnvironmentDevelopmentInternetInnovationEntrepreneurDevelopingEnginesGoogleSearch Engine Author:Sergey Brin
“But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics.” ThinkingWorldLooksStillsStatesAmericaUnitedPowerfulCreativityUnited StatesEconomyInnovationIncrediblesSpiteMost PowerfulEnginesUnited States Of AmericaWorkforceCreativity And Innovation Author:Jay Carney
“Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.” ImportantRealPoliticalUnderstandingPoorHellProgressModernCreationPoliticianInnovationMedicineLifestyleDriversStabilityEnginesElectricityGeneticsSteamInventingSteam EnginesGood PoliticiansMicroprocessor Author:Bill Gates
“Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.” InnovationRadioEnginesMultipleTelephonesParallelsInventorSteamElectricalBatteriesCalculusSteam EnginesGroundbreaking Author:Steven Johnson
“Univa developing and supporting Grid Engine is welcome news for the GE community. This move by Univa brings with it a new competitive spirit and sense of innovation to a market that continuously benefits from pushing the envelope.” MovingSpiritCommunityBenefitsNewsInnovationWelcomeDevelopingPushingEnginesEnvelopesGridsPushing The EnvelopeCompetitive Spirit Author:Ian Foster
“We understand the need to balance our short- and longer-term needs because our revenue is the engine that funds all our innovation. But over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.” NeedsWellsDoeTodayTermProductsInternetBalanceInnovationPartnersSignificantStreamsFundEnginesGoogleRevenueEmergingUsage Author:Larry Page
“Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation.” CreativityConflictInnovationPrimariesEnginesCreativity And Innovation Author:Ronald A. Heifetz
“College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.” IdeasWealthEconomyOur LivesCollegeResearchInnovationImpactUniversityEnormousEnginesGraduatesCollege GraduatesIdeas And InnovationAmerican Economy Author:Gordon Gee
“As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.” SometimesEyeInnovationUniversityIsolationRemarkableEnginesTowersIvoryIvory Tower Author:Steven Johnson