Quotes About Innovation

Charlie] Moon was trying hard to get a handle on this. Maybe he's got a PhD. What with pass-fail replacing conventional grading, Internet diploma mills, and who knows what other academic innovations that has been driving the dumbing-down in American education, you couldn't tell who might have a sheepskin tucked away in his hip pocket.

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

People say we are playing God. My answer is: If we don't play God, who will?

Desde el momento en el que el primero de nuestros antepasados convirtió un palo en una lanza, las consecuencias de los conflictos a lo largo de la historia han sido impuestas por la tecnologia.

A brand or business that skips the creative process has not been founded and is just a failed dream with a worthless title of being founded

You can't found a brand or business until after you lay your foundation first as it starts with your creative process that lays the foundation for your brand to be built on

after more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned"6 —MARSHALL McLUHAN, 1964

Another advantage enjoyed by small farmers in the Dark Ages arose from the adoption in the sixth century of new farming technology: the heavy plow, often mounted on wheels. Used in tandem with an improved harness that allowed peasants to employ multiple oxen, the new technology made it much easier to clear forested land in Northern Europe.19

Memorization as a skill will become useless, but the value of quickly learning will increase. We'll be in a world of abundant information and what you'll need to know is how to use it.

While paper money will no doubt remain in circulation as a residual medium of exchange for the poor and computer-illiterate, money for high-value transactions will be privatized.

Through all of human history from its earliest beginnings until now, there have been only three basic stages of economic life: (1) hunting-and-gathering societies; (2) agricultural societies; and (3) industrial societies. Now, looming over the horizon, is something entirely new, the fourth stage of social organization: information societies.

The ban on "usury" was a signal example of the Church's resistance to commercial innovation. Banking and credit were crucial to the development of larger-scale commercial enterprises. By restricting the availability of credit, the Church retarded growth.

With the advent of farming, human horizons expanded.

James Dale Davidson

The cybereconomy, rather than China, could well be the greatest economic phenomenon of the next thirty years.

To dare a thought is to risk being wrong.

Faster than all but a few now imagine, microprocessing will subvert and destroy the nation-state, creating new forms of social organization in the process.

Other things being equal, the more widely dispersed key technologies are, the more widely dispersed power will be, and the smaller the optimum scale of government.

You cannot tax unless you can compile records and issue receipts. The symbols employed in the accountant's ledger became the rudiments of written language, an innovation that had never existed among hunters and gatherers.