Quotes About Innovation

I cannot believe they haven't yet come up with a better screening process than the mammogram. If a man had to put his special parts inside a clamp to test him for anything, I think they would come up with a new plan before the doctor finished saying, "Put that thing there so I can crush it.

Each day was called a generation, because that in it God generated, or produced, some new portion of his work.

she was busily wondering how women could have survived marriage throughout the ages if knitting had not been invented,

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Mindfulness can encourage creativity when the focus is on the process and not the product.

If something is presented as an accepted truth, alternative ways of thinking do not even come up for consideration.

This ability to transcend context is the essence of mindfulness and central to creativity in any field.

Changing of contexts, as we've seen in earlier chapters, generates imagination and creativity as well as new energy.

To not make a mistake we have to err on the side of caution and not try anything new. Such a life would be deadening, literally and figuratively. What's more, we limit ourselves if we play it too safe.

when new technology for cardiac surgery was introduced, those medical teams with leaders who minimized concern for status differences—in other words, were willing implicitly to admit they didn't have all the answers and take advice from underlings—had the most effective communication, learned the most, and found the transition the easiest.

A painting is never finished—it simply stops in interesting places. PAUL GARDNER

If we don't begin with a rigid plan, it is hard to make a mistake.

All this talk about what a marvelous future science'll bring us? Art can change things just as much.' She stubbed out her cigarette. 'Maybe better.' 'Why's that?' 'Art doesn't kill anyone.

The status quo doesn't stand a chance.

Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

Engineers start with technology and look for a use for it; business people start with a business proposition and then look for the technology and the people. Designers start with people, coming towards a solution from the point of view of people.

We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.

when people come up with new ideas, they have to have confidence in themselve to say " i can do it

Here's to new blood." -Jagger Maxwell

Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative.

Computer science was then generally a subdepartment of electrical engineering

Technology is not the driver of change; what drives technology is human desire.

Then, just when it seemed that only the barest of bugs survived, there would be a new version of the software. And with that, a fresh opportunity for introducing bugs.

Flash drives such as the one pictured in Fig.1.6 use flash memory packaged in small plastic cases about three inches long that can be plugged into any of a computer's USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports. Unlike hard drives and optical drives that must spin their disks for access to data, flash drives have no moving parts and all data transfer is by electronic signal only. In flash memory, bits are represented as electrons trapped in microscopic chambers of silicon dioxide.