Quotes About Innovation

In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.

Existing businesses aspiring to become adaptive corporations need to commit to understanding what exactly an adaptive innovator is and how that differs from both systemic designers and knowledge workers. In the end, they will actually need conscious planning to move them from a decades-imbedded orientation of knowledge work, to a new mindset of continuous adaptive innovation centered on the customer.

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

True learning involves learning other ways of doing what you can do already.

From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.

The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.

He creates mosques and forts that aren't buildings, but tapestries of rock.

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.

Laugh if you will... They laughed at all great ideas and inventions. They laughed at nitrous oxide.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

Think back to the Apollo 13 story. The astronauts and engineers had spent years planning for the launch. They had built a core team inspired by the vision of another flight to the moon. Despite all of that planning, they hit that gut-wrenching moment and said the famous words "Houston we have a problem.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.

When government decides to set "standards" for an industry, to whom will it turn for expertise? Brilliant newcomers? No, government doesn't even know who they are. The older, lazier, bigger, arthritic businesses suggest the rules and make sure that their way is the only legal way.

While a free market doesn't produce equal outcomes, it produces better outcomes.

Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.