Quotes About Innovation

Often the inventor that history remembers is not the true inventor, but the one who made the idea commercially successful. Thomas Edison didn't invent the lightbulb either.

all government work, including that stored in libraries, to be switched from parchment to paper.

MORE THAN A gastronomic development, the salting of fowl and especially of fish was an important step in the development of economies.

So even Cicero imagined moveable type, but only in his polemic as an absurd idea. He used the phrase formae literarum, and when moveable type was finally made some sixteen centuries later, that is the name they gave it—though it was not such an absurd idea after all.

anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule." The

Circuit boards have foundations made of paper;

teabag paper is not made from wood pulp but from the stalk of abaca, a banana-like plant grown in the Philippines. Abaca was first used as a paper source at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. —OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

Writing a novel creates a window to a new way of looking at the world. Reading one means looking through that window.

Imagination is a gift waiting to be opened. A writer must peel back the wrapping and share that offering with the world.

That great moment when a plot twist appears in your story, one you never thought of, one coming from some hidden place in your mind.

Imagination creates its own possibilities.

When writing a sentence or phrase, ask yourself if you've ever heard or read it before. If you have, it's a cliché. Get rid of it.

Even in a desperate turnaround situation, if you shift your market radically and suddenly, you may lose the market you have before you can get a new one.

Staying the same isn't enough because yesterday's success can easily become tomorrow's mediocrity.

Mark Sanborn

To a business, ordinary is poison, extraordinary the antidote.

Google and Apple and other latter day American success stories started in somebody's garage--the one place where innovation isn't immediately buried by bureaucracy, or at least in most states, not until some minor municipal functionary discovers you neglected to apply for a Not Sitting Around on My Ass All Day permit.

but instead of the can-do spirit we now have the can-do-with-some-government-funding spirit. And it's hard to get an inspirational heart-warmer out of that.

For a century, Edison's light bulb was regarded as a beacon of American genius; then it became a 'climate criminal. That transformation is American decline in a nutshell.

No Islamic nation could have flown to the moon or invented the Internet, simply because for a millennium the culture has suppressed the curiosity necessary for such a venture.

Free speech and a dynamic, innovative society are intimately connected: a culture that can't bear a dissenting word on race or religion or gender fluidity or carbon offsets is a society that will cease to innovate, and then stagnate, and then decline, very fast. As American universities, British playwrights, and Australian judges once understood, the 'safe space' is where cultures go to die.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.