Quotes About Innovation

When the cost of high-quality resources for design and prototyping becomes very low-which is the trend we have described-these resources can be diffused widely, and the allocation problem then diminishes in significance. The net result is and will be to democratize the opportunity to create. Democratization of

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 identify and fill by designing and producing new products.

user-innovators can enjoy product development enough to want to do it themselves-after all, manufacturers

Honscheid came over from West Germany for the first Hawaiian World Cup and discovered jumping, which was new to him, although Mike Horgan and I were jumping in 1974 and 1975. There

themselves. User-centered innovation processes offer great advantages over the manufacturer-centric innovation development systems that have been the mainstay of commerce for hundreds of years. Users that innovate can develop exactly what they want, rather than relying on manufacturers to act as their (often very imperfect) agents. Moreover, individual

Provoking Thought & Inspiring the Imagination

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

The human mind is capable of creating anything that can be imagined.

Wer will, dass die Welt so bleibt, wie sie ist, der will nicht, dass sie bleibt.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

A design that doesn't take change into account risks major redesign in the future.

dynamically.

Warum muß es immer so gemacht werden, wie es früher gemacht wurde? Wenn das konsequent geschähen wäre, säßen wir heute noch auf den Bäumen!

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Daniel H. Burnham

To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.

By decluttering our mind we can liberate mental forces that can inflame inspiring sparks of creativity. A singular flash or a particular flair on an unusual day can arouse a flood of stimulating thoughts. When we take ourselves off guard and our mind-set by surprise we can stir an array of inventive ideas. ("A flair of inspiration" )

Ready-to-wear thinking means absence of critical awareness and lack of ground-breaking judgments. ("Prêt-à-penser")

The true rightist is not a man who wants to go back to this or that institution for the sake of a return; he wants first to find out what is eternally true, eternally valid, and then either to restore or reinstall it, regardless of whether it seems obsolete, whether it is ancient, contemporary, or even without precedent, brand new, "ultramodern." Old truths can be rediscovered, entirely new ones found. The Man of the Right does not have a time-bound, but a sovereign mind.

This would never have happened in my day," Archeye commented from where he sat in front of the elders' den. "What's next? Kit warriors?

FIRST EDITION

Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.

Technology is not a form of robotics but something very human: the creation of tools and techniques that answer certain uses in our lives.

Traditional histories of technology do not pay much attention to food. They tend to focus on hefty industrial and military developments: wheels and ships, gunpowder and telegraphs, airships and radio. When food is mentioned, it is usually in the context of agriculture—systems of tillage and irrigation—rather than the domestic work of the kitchen. But there is just as much invention in a nutcracker as in a bullet.

Every new technology represents a trade-off: something is gained, but something is also lost.