11 quotes
The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way … It’s supposed to be hard.
The CNN 10 : Thinkers (2013)
Scientists and engineers changed the world.
Its programs last, on average, only three to five years.
Special Forces” Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems (2013)
Science is art. It is the process of creating something that never exists before. ... It makes us ask new questions about ourselves, others; about ethics, the future.
Over the past 50 years, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has produced an unparalleled number of breakthroughs. Arguably, it has the longest-standing, most consistent track record of radical invention in history.
Special Forces” Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems (2013)
We choose to build what we believe in.
Its founding mission was simple: "to prevent and create strategic surprise.”
Special Forces” Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems (2013)
DARPA was created in 1958 … Its founding mission was simple: "to prevent and create strategic surprise."
To increase the speed of innovation here, we want to increase the number of people who can contribute ideas to the creative process.
Fast Company interview (2011)
You can't lose your nerve for the big failure because you need exactly the same nerve for the big success.
Fast Company interview (2011)
We want to make things. We want to make things with our hands. We crave it. It sparks something in us, feeds our urge to create. That's why were here.