Quotes About Innovation

Making lives meaningful in old age is new. It therefore requires more imagination and invention than making them merely safe does.

BILL THOMAS WANTED to remake the nursing home.

Obstetrics went about improving the same way Toyota and General Electric went about improving: on the fly, but always paying attention to the results and trying to better them. And

From World War II onward, the picture shifted radically. Sulfa, penicillin, and then numerous other antibiotics became available for treating infections. Drugs to control blood pressure and treat hormonal imbalances were discovered. Breakthroughs in everything from heart surgery to artificial respirators to kidney transplantation became commonplace. Doctors became heroes, and the hospital transformed from a symbol of sickness and despondency to a place of hope and cure.

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But finding a good idea is apparently not all that hard. Finding an entrepreneur who can execute a good idea is a different matter entirely. One needs a person who can take an idea from proposal to reality, work the long hours, build a team, handle the pressures and setbacks, manage technical and people problems alike, and stick with the effort for years on end without getting distracted or going insane. Such people are rare and extremely hard to spot. Smart

We know the patterns. We see the costs. It's time to try something else. Try a checklist.

I am reminded of how difficult and time-consuming it is to reinvent the pencil every time you want to send a message.

For there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

On a flimsy framework of reality, imagination spins, weaving new patterns.

If my mother was odd enough to crave a bubble bath at three in the morning, Dorothy was inventive enough to suggest adding broken glass to the tub. If my mother insisted on listening to West Side Story repeatedly, it was Dorothy who said, 'Let's listen to it on forty-five!' And when my mother announced that she wanted a fur wrap like Auntie Mame, Dorothy bought her an unstable Norwegian elkhound from a puppy mill.

We tried to everything right, now we were forced to do everything wrong and it was working.

You manufacture beauty with your mind

Perfectionism is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If

While there is wisdom in refraining from implementing change merely for the sake of change, clinging to old ways solely for the sake of their antiquity is obviously equally futile.

Describing his technique to Robert Frost, Clarke said I load myself down with chains and try to wriggle free.

Could you make a computer imagine an entire world? How would you start? A generation of people would wrestle with this problem—they're still wrestling with it.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.