Quotes About Innovation

Write down as many different uses that you can think of for the following objects: a brick a blanket This is an example of what's called a "divergence test

neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of

manufacturing started in earnest. It was when all the rules by which

And do you know who wrote much of the software that allows you to access the Internet? Bill Joy.

It is easier and far more satisfying to retreat and compose yourself after every score—and execute perfectly choreographed plays—than to swarm about, arms flailing, and contest every inch of the basketball court. Underdog strategies

He was an underdog and a misfit, and that gave him the freedom to try things no one else even dreamt of.

Popeils had been doing for most of the century, and what all the experts said couldn't be done in the modern economy. He dreamed up something new in his kitchen and went out and pitched it himself.

a radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

But it is an advance that has nothing to do with taking more pictures, or taking better pictures. It has to do with going beyond the picture.

But testing products or ideas that are truly revolutionary is another matter, and the most successful companies are those that understand that in those cases, the first impressions of their consumers need interpretation.

does not believe that consumers — even spaghetti lovers — know what they desire if what they desire does not yet exist.

View, where electronics hobbyists and tinkerers sold spare parts. Jobs came of age breathing the air of the very business he would later dominate. This paragraph from Accidental Millionaire, one of the many Jobs biographies, gives us a sense of

passed in those days for computer terminals. In 1971, this was state of the art. The University of Michigan had one of the most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over

If everyone needs to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

Wolf and Bruhn had to convince the medical establishment to think about health and heart attacks in an entirely new way: they had to get them to realize that they wouldn't be

The lesson of the Impressionists is that there are times and places where it is better to be a Big Fish in a Little Pond than a Little Fish in a Big Pond, where the apparent disadvantage of being an outsider in a marginal world turns out not to be a disadvantage at

statement. They also made a technical skate

We have, I think, a very rigid and limited definition of what an advantage is.

contraption that you could assemble at home. The headline on the story read: "PROJECT BREAKTHROUGH! World's

from centuries past, as well as contemporary billionaires, such

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Whenever somebody has an idea for a business and experiences quite a bit of success, you can naturally expect the government to step in and screw it up.