Quotes About Innovation

Creative brains are a valuable, limited resource. They shouldn't be wasted on re-inventing the wheel when there are so many fascinating new problems waiting out there.

When leaders reframe customers into guests, and results into experiences, profits escalate.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call Lobachevsky the Copernicus of Geometry [as did Clifford], for geometry is only a part of the vaster domain which he renovated; it might even be just to designate him as a Copernicus of all thought.

Asked some years later how he (Abel) had managed to forge ahead so rapidly to the front rank he replied, "By studying the masters, not their pupils"- a prescription some popular writers of textbooks might do well to mention in their prefaces as an antidote to the poisonous mediocrity of their uninspired pedagogics.

Clarity is, indeed, all the more necessary when one essays to lead the reader farther from the beaten path and into wilder territory- Joseph Liouville

Desire and imagination have the potential to position a person for greatness

As long as you're being a copycat, you will never be the best copycat.

took ten years and $5 billion to sequence the first human genome, and now it takes less than twenty-four hours and costs less than $1,500.5

As we reviewed in Chapter 7, we will get away from keyboards in the office, also known as "death by a thousand clicks," and replace them with computer processing of natural language into notes.98–100

the average person is projected to have between six and seven connected devices by 2020.

It may just mean that the best way to cut the ever-increasing costs of health care around the world will be to provide cheap smartphones with Internet service to those who otherwise could not afford to buy them.

Imaging via a pocket ultrasound device decidedly transcends the antique stethoscope from 1816, regarded as the icon of medicine.

Later in the 1700s, the preeminent economist Adam Smith actually wrote The Wealth of Nations in a coffeehouse, after having repeatedly circulated drafts for input among the regulars there. Beyond

Based on this sort positive data, Leonard Kish, a health information technologist, has rightfully called the engaged patient the "blockbuster drug of the century."15

Wouldn't it be amazing to have anonymous medical records available to all research doctors? Making our medical records open for sharing will save 100,000 lives a year.

the engaged patient the "blockbuster drug of the century.

the idea of going down to your doctor's office is going to feel as foreign as going to the video store.

individual or a small group seeking a solution to an individual's or a

The user-centered innovation process just illustrated is in sharp contrast to the traditional model, in which products and services are developed by manufacturers in a closed way, the manufacturers using patents, copyrights, and other protections to prevent imitators from free riding on their innovation investments. In this traditional model, a user's only role is to have needs, which manufacturers then

strongly agreed with the statement that their need information came from personal needs they