Quotes About Innovation

There is much to be said for modern appliances in the kitchen, but there are times when we revert to primitive tools simply because they do the job so much better.

If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully exploiting the information superhighways of the future.

Ideas cannot be changed through argument. We are not seeking to discover new ideas but rather to create new attitudes in ourselves and others with regard to ideas.

Age does not guarantee wisdom. And youth is no guarantee of innovation.

I can but repeat that art is not a branch of pedagogy!

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.

In 1948, at age seventy-six, Orville Wright died after two heart attacks.

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.

NASA has this phrase that they like: 'Failure is not an option.' But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration, because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks. So, that's the thought I would leave you with, is that in whatever you're doing, failure is an option, but fear is not.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite.

The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.

The file cabinets in my head are never-ending rows of knowledge and creativity.

You cannot attempt to suggest much less try to explain this to normal people inside the box and is why I always throw in the monkey wrench option of doing it the social way

We all need people who sow aspiration into our lives. Phil Knight & Bill Bowerman have and continues to inspire me. Who inspires you?.

Can't explain my mind I am able to rearrange words in my mind at lightning fast paces and create anything. I test stuff out first to the public and if it's a go I turn it into quotes, shirts, books etc. if not I archive it.

There is a proper way to shake hands with Google first before sitting down with them for dinner

Most of my creativity happens on the spot no matter where I am

Keep your crumbs and the seats at your table, I will go build my own table and seat all Savvy Turtle's like me and we will change the world for the better

You may be on the level of thinking outside the box, moving up a level is realizing What Box?.

When asked to give his opinion as to why airpower was stillborn in the U.S., with little funding or interest coming from the navy or army, he replied: "Conservatism. . . . You see, the army and the navy are the oldest institutions we have. They place everything on precedent. You can't do that in the air business. You have got to look ahead.