Quotes About Innovation

It was way cool, being the one who did the math.

But we lost so much in the Prettytime - all the foundations were gone. So we're stuck making it up as we go along! Tally laughed. So what else is new, Frizz? Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. So don't tell me that humanity being logic-missing is my fault.

We all steal," Standerson said. "The trick is to steal from regular people, not other novelists.

Gods are so last year," Hiro said, and Aya smiled.

All new markets are inefficient at first

Thus, even though VC-backed firms accounted for 47 percent of IPOs, they accounted for 76 percent of the market value at the end of the study. They also accounted for fully 89 percent of R&D spending.[35

The six other members of the Traitorous Eight bought shares, and Robert Noyce saw to it that his small alma mater, Grinnell College, was invited to participate.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.

the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.

Everyone will think it's stupid! Everyone says it's impossible. Guess what? Everyone works in the balloon factory and everyone is wrong.

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.

Heretics must believe. More than anyone else in an organization, it's the person who's challenging the status quo, the one who is daring to be great, who is truly present and not just punching a clock who must have confidence in her beliefs. Can you imagine Steve Jobs showing up for the paycheck? It's nice to get paid. It's essential to believe.

Passion can overcome fear - the fear of losing, of failing, of being traditional.

That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

The old rule was this: CREATE SAFE, ORDINARY PRODUCTS AND COMBINE THEM WITH GREAT MARKETING. The new rule is: CREATE REMARKABLE PRODUCTS THAT THE RIGHT PEOPLE SEEK OUT.

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.