Quotes About Innovation

I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

By the death of Mr. O. Chanute the world has lost one whose labors had to an unusual degree influenced the course of human progress. If he had not lived the entire history of progress in flying would have been other than it has been.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

In some respects, Nero was ahead of his time. He boiled his drinking water to remove the impurities and cooled it with unsanitary ice to put them back in. He renamed the month of April after himself, calling it Neroneus, but the idea never caught on because April is not Neroneus and there is no use pretending that it is. During his reign of fourteen years, the outlying provinces are said to have prospered. They were farther away.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

The technical definition of heuristic is a simple procedure that helps find adequate, though often imperfect, answers to difficult questions. The word comes from the same root as eureka.

This start-up looks as if it could not fail, but the base rate of success in the industry is extremely low. How do we know this case is different?

If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it." P

Henry Faulds, a Scottish physician, published the first scientific paper suggesting the use of fingerprints as an identification technique.

A world in which firms compete by offering better products is preferable to one in which the winner is the firm that is best at obfuscation.

The same is true when multiple teams of researchers attack a scientific problem, such as the development of a vaccine: we very much want them to look at it from different angles.

Daniel Kahneman is one of the most original and interesting thinkers of our time.

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

Your job next year will not resemble your job this year. If it does, either your employer is not thriving or your position in the company is not secure.

The agile business professional is always looking to provide new services and the next product before the public even knows they need them.

There is only one way to make money: finding out what other people want or need and then providing those things to as many of our fellow humans as possible.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Gaining experience is good, but it is also an obstacle because in some ways you have to forget what you know. You have to cease being an expert in order to do something new and something good.

Until 1868 there wasn't a single school of architecture in the United States, and the conventional apprentice system proved of little utility when the first skyscrapers

At the Beaux-Arts he was that most admired of students, "a second-place man." First place in academic competitions belonged to the highly capable and absolutely conventional; the truly brilliant, whose innovative work made the masters at the Ecole uneasy, learned to be content with second.