Quotes About Innovation

CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself — at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.

Writing a book is like giving birth. Marketing a book is like giving birth in the 12th century.

At that moment, though, she stood there on stage, perched atop a pair of ruby-red heels, looking less like Eliza Doolittle than Dorothy; the girl swept up in the cyclone, lifted out of her black-and-white world and deposited in a Technicolor Oz.

I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.

supporting each other in a joint effort. Discuss ways to prevent time wasting in areas of your department that seem especially inefficient. Set up an informal forum, in which your staff can share their time-saving tricks. Some people have a natural sense of how to use time effectively, and everyone can benefit from their wisdom. Don't forget to offer your own suggestions. Then draft a time-management

If we're going to stay competitive in a globalised economy, everyone's got to be able to perform at the top of their game.

once computers gain good language understanding and we can speak to them, then reading and writing are going to seem cumbersome'.

Embrace clichés, then rejuvenate them. Assemble all the visual ones associated with your brief then look at ways of reusing them, and reconnecting to their essence with new vigour.

Create the change you seek in the world. Be an ecopreneur. Launch your dream green business.

Cognitive flexibility is an important executive function that reflects our ability to shift thinking and to produce a steady flow of creative thoughts and answers as opposed to a regurgitation of the usual responses. The trait correlates with high-performance levels in intellectually demanding jobs. So if you have an important afternoon brainstorming session scheduled, going for a short, intense run during lunchtime is a smart idea.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

And what we're doing in Ohio is we're moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one that's diversified, including energy and health care and agriculture and IT.

Los procedimientos existen para impedir el contacto, no para favorecerlo. La gente sin imaginación y sin ideas llena su cabeza con programas y procedimientos. La gente con carácter sabe cuándo prescindir de los procedimientos.

becomes a competitive advantage when it

The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race. And, if we're lucky, the final stage will be the human race.