Quotes About Innovation

In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system.

Hidden in the physical work space, in the user's words, and in the tools they use are the beautiful gems of knowledge that can create revolutionary, breakthrough products or simply fix existing, broken products. People do strange things - unexpected things - and being there to witness and record these minute and quick moments of humanity is simply invaluable

When technology changes, tasks usually change, but goals remain constant," so

Great ideas can't be tested. Only mediocre ideas can be tested.

vision led, customer informed.

Esquire magazine: "Great ideas can't be tested. Only mediocre ideas can be tested." It sums up how I feel about trying to measure radical ideas. You simply can't. You can't apply data to see if you should do a radical idea. You do the radical idea, and then you measure how it worked.

In many ways, the role of design in a corporation has shifted dramatically from one of craftsmanship—making artifacts—to one of facilitation—or driving an agenda. Designers find themselves operating in a space between project manager and consensus driver—and that's not a particularly creative or invigorating place to be. For those who end up in this role, the following may offer guidance to rekindle the creative embers that are beginning to burn out.

Design, however, is frequently a generative activity. Designers consider multiple futures, thinking about different ways that the world might be.

Design is about humanizing technology or finding ways for technology to integrate into the fabric of our culture.

designers conceive of what does not yet exist, their process cannot be analytically proven until after the fact. That means that they must make intuitive or inferential leaps.

the design process is one that must accept innovation risk. Innovation risk is the chance that a new product, system, or service may fail. The larger the risk, the larger the reward. Similarly, the larger the innovation risk, the deeper the repercussions of failure.

Product development process transitions

Today's designers work to make technology fit appropriately into our human-to-human interactions

The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it.

I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

Humans seldom have created anything of lasting value unless they were tired or hurting.

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.

To ignore those who stand out as harbingers in favor of those cleave to the status quo is to refuse engagement with the future if not to misunderstand the nature of youth itself

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Jon Scieszka

At a deep level, all code is about communication: expressing ideas about what you want to achieve.

what the market does. It introduces luxuries for the wealthy, and the wealthy subsidize innovations that turn luxuries—cell phones, cars, medicine, computers, nutritious food, comfortable homes, etc.—into necessities. It is the greatest triumph of alchemy in all of human experience, and the response from many in every generation is ingratitude and entitlement.