Quotes About Innovation

She was so eager and enthusiastic that Freda and Lane felt dull and slow in comparison. If Eva had been running the library, there might be fairy lights around it, and music blaring from inside. She could have set up a cocktail bar in the foyer. Her life was like her house—a colorful fantasy where anything was possible if you wanted it badly enough.

The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.

I want to say that wonderful ideas can come from anywhere. Sometimes you make a mistake, or break something, or lose a hat, and the next thing you know, you get a great idea.

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.

As the playwright George Bernard Shaw once put it: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

innovators need to be disagreeable. By disagreeable, I don't mean obnoxious or unpleasant. I mean that on that fifth dimension of the Big Five personality inventory, "agreeableness," they tend to be on the far end of the continuum. They are people willing to take social risks—to do things that others might disapprove of.

all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward.

Why are man hole covers around? If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft

Those who are successful at creating social epidemics do not just do what they think is right. They deliberately test their intuitions.

I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing that fits the contours of his or her imagination. Obsessives lead us astray sometimes. Can't see the bigger picture. Serve not just the world's but also their own narrow interests. But I don't think we get progress or innovation or joy or beauty without obsessives.

We can admire Curtis LeMay, respect him, and try to understand his choices. But Hansell is the one we give our hearts to. Why? Because I think he provides us with a model of what it means to be moral in our modern world. We live in an era when new tools and technologies and innovations emerge every day. But the only way those new technologies serve some higher purpose is if a dedicated band of believers insists that they be used to that purpose.

The Band-Aid is an inexpensive, convenient, and remarkably versatile solution to an astonishing array of problems.

Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and to be willing to challenge their own preconceptions.

Proficimus more irretenti: "We make progress unhindered by custom.

The most expensive single undertaking of the Second World War was the B-29 Bomber, the Superfortress. The second most expensive was the Manhattan Project, the massive, unprecedented effort to invent and build the world's first atomic bomb. But the third most expensive project of the war? Not a bomb, not a plane, not a tank, not a gun, not a ship. It was the Norden bombsight, the fifty-five-pound

George Bernard Shaw once put it: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

the most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over the course of the Computer Center's life, thousands of students passed

movie 2001: A Space Odyssey." Off to the side were dozens of keypunch machines—what passed in those days for computer terminals.

computer would come along that was small and inexpensive enough for an ordinary person to use and own. That day had finally arrived. If January 1975 was the

When you write down your thoughts, your chances of having the flash of insight you need in order to come up with a solution are significantly impaired.

the day when a computer would come along that was small and inexpensive enough for an ordinary person to use and own. That day had finally arrived. If January 1975 was the dawn of the personal computer age, then who would

restaurants and bars opened along Garibaldi Avenue. More than a dozen factories sprang up making blouses for the garment trade. Neighboring Bangor

El hombre razonable se adapta al mundo; el irrazonable insiste en que el mundo se adapte a él. Por este motivo, todo progreso depende del hombre irrazonable».