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Killer applications change technological advances from curiosities into moneymaking essentials.
Bill Gates The Road Ahead · 1995

Innovation Quotations

“Killer applications change technological advances from curiosities into moneymaking essentials.”

Bill Gates · The Road Ahead, 1995 · Primary source

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

Ayn Rand · The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, 1986 · Primary source

“One of the things that happens in organizations as well as with people is that they settle into ways of looking at the world and become satisfied with things and the world changes and keeps evolving and new potential arises but these people who are settled in don’t see it. That’s what gives start-up companies their greatest advantage.”

Steve Jobs · Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories: Steve Jobs, 1995 · Primary source

“The old order won’t give way to the new without a phase of experimentation and chaos in between.”

Andrew S. Grove · High Output Management, 1983 · Primary source

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Innovation

4 authors · 4 works · 8 themes · 20 tags
Authors
Bill Gates American Entrepreneur and PhilanthropistSteve Jobs Co-founder of AppleAndrew S. Grove Former CEO of Intel Corporation
Works
High Output Management Andrew S. Grove · 1983The Road Ahead Bill Gates · 1995Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories: Steve Jobs Steve Jobs, Daniel Morrow (interviewer) · 1995
Themes
Practical use drives adoptionInnovation becomes commercially valuableAchievement over rivalry
Tags
Killer applicationsTechnology adoptionCommercialisationMarket demand
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