Quotes About Innovation

Well, if you look back, in almost two and a half years, the biggest change probably was in late 2000 when we decided to totally change the CA business model.

Many companies don't exist after 25 years. It's a rarity. Or if they do exist, they're like IBM, with a totally changing personality.

My first movie was totally improvised.

Many people think we are a technology company, but we are totally customer-led.

Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.

Rocky Kolb has put it, "To compare the accomplishment of Newton to that of the first manned flight, one would have to imagine Orville and Wilbur Wright pulling up on the sands of Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903, behind the controls of a modern jetliner and flying off to New York."[*]

As the reducibly complex mousetrap reminds us, we shouldn't let the intimidating sophistication of the final product trick us into thinking that it couldn't have come about via numerous small steps.

To improve our current understanding of the laws of physics, we have to be open to the possibility that we're gonna invent more words, more concepts, and more ways of looking at the same universe, that help us recast those laws, extend them, generalise them, and go beyond what we currently know, into the physics that we don't yet understand but hope someday to do.

of this changed thanks to a clever chap named Isaac Newton.

argued for new ways of thinking about length and duration.

The future ain't what it used to be, but it's coming right at us, regardless.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. It was the third of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws of prediction.

begin by asking, "If every other aspect of our team's performance remained at its current level, what is the one area where significant improvement would have the greatest impact?

Bowie talks in great, voluble torrents, darting from one topic to the next, parenthesizing and then parenthesizing the parentheses, as if he has too many ideas for one conversation.

If at first you don't succeed, look in the trash for the instructions.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

It's an essential part of becoming more creative. Expand your interests in life. Seek out new, interesting experiences, no matter how mundane or inconsequential they might seem to others. Read books, watch documentaries, and discuss your ideas with others. No subject, no matter how specialized or esoteric, is off limits. You never know where your imagination will find pieces for its puzzles.

Einstein said that "imagination is more important than knowledge," because "knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

This is the beauty of imagination. An unexpected dead end in one journey is merely an opportunity to set a new course for another.

Imagination is the life force of the genius code.

Henry Ford failed in business several times and was flat broke five times before he founded the Ford Motor Company.

Facts and ideas are dead in themselves and it is the imagination that gives life to them.

The air is full of ideas," Henry Ford said. "They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.