Quotes About Innovation

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

was a master of the PowerPoint presentation nearly a century before it existed.

Increasing creativeness doesn't require anything more than increasing your observations: become more aware of possible combinations.

In a recent survey, innovative people — from inventors to scientists, writers to programmers — were asked what techniques they used. Over 70% believed they got their best ideas by exploring areas they were not experts in

Howard H. Aiken, a famous inventor, said, "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."[

The love of new ideas is a myth: we prefer ideas only after others have tested them.

Nearly every major innovation of the 20th century took place without claims of epiphany.

the only reason anything good ships is because of the programmers. They are everything. They are not factory employees; they are craftspeople, craftspeople who are the fundamental creative engine of making software.

The future never enters the present as a finished product, but that doesn't stop people from expecting it to arrive that way.

Making great things requires both intuition and logic, not a dominance of one over the other.

Defensive management is blind to recognizing how obsessing about preventing bad things also prevents good things from happening or sometimes even prevents anything from happening at all.

If removing a restriction improves performance or has no impact on performance but improves morale, everyone wins.

a small idea, applied consistently, can have disproportionately large effects.

It's natural for people to protect what they know instead of leaping into the unknown, and managers are no exception. Managers might even be worse, as the politics they rely on to survive can make them more entrenched and defensive.

At some point, all creative tasks become work. The interesting and fun challenges fade, and the ordinary, boring, inglorious work necessary to bring an idea to the world becomes the reality.

Innovations often need to be explained in terms of the status quo, which is why automobiles are rated in horsepower and electric lights in

Effective PMs simply consider more alternatives before giving up than other people do.

it didn't matter if the sketches were "right"; what mattered was that his sketch improved the quality of the conversation,

Is it better to invest time in making a big masterful plan or instead to start immediately and figure it out as you go?

If you want longevity, you can't just bet on tradition; you have to continually invest in the future.

GitHub has always been a fully distributed company, naturally reaching many of the same conclusions as Automattic about autonomy, empowerment, and trust.

There is nothing wrong with tradition until you want progress: progress demands change, and change demands a reevaluation of what the traditions are for and how they are practiced.