Quotes About Innovation

Master of all masters, get out of your barnacle and put on your squibs and crackers. For white-faced simminy has got a spark of hot cockalorum on its tail, and unless you get some pondalorum high topper mountain will be all on hot cockalorum.

The four Ps (Product, Price, Place, and Promotion) have been updated with a new model: the six C's of Content, Commerce, Community, Context, Customization, and Conversation.

What you should do is hire very smart people who are a good fit. And then you should expose them (and yourself) to ideas. The ideas should come from within and from outside.

Identify your 70/20/10 (or 60/30/10 depending on risk appetite). Most people know of this allocation from the innovation approach that Eric Schmidt pioneered at Google: 70 percent of time allocated to core business tasks, 20 percent to projects directly related to the core business, and 10 percent dedicated to projects unrelated to the core business.

He who has imagination without learning has feet but no wings.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features.

Schoenberg came to the crisis of modernism from a standpoint diametrically opposed to that of Schenker and Tovey: not with his finger in the dyke but with his whole frame spreadeagled on a board swept along by the surf of history.

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

The 'value' of particular artists after Duchamp can be weighed according to how much they questioned the nature of art.

After the death of Archimedes in 212 BCE, the topic of motion was effectively abandoned; it did not resurface for another 1,400 years, when Gerard of Brussels revived the mathematical works of Euclid and Archimedes and came very close to defining speed as a ratio of distance to time.

It is through Galileo that the connection between math and the physical world became solidified.

These concepts implied fixed futures, parallel universes, and an overall or grand design, doing away with innovative or changing possibilities.

Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.

It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.

Getriebe!? Ob dieser außerirdische schreibmaschinengesteuerte Hightech-Flieger mit Schwerwasser-Kaltfusions-Antrieb wohl mit Automatik daherkommt?

To live a creative life we must loose our fear of being wrong.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

Therefore, the very large department store should not be viewed as a sinful undertaking, as, for example, the Tower of Babel. It is, rather, proof of the inability of the human race of today to be extravagant. It even builds skyscrapers: and the consequence this time isn't a great flood, but just a shop...

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Hey, you've discovered a new way to fetch water for the elders!" Hazeltail put in.

But who exactly wanted you to look beyond the obvious choices?

Mi hermano sostiene que creer que antes era todo mejor es un callejón sin salida. Pero distinto es una palabra que le gusta.

Egil har altså ikke sugd det fra eget bryst, men, sier han, vi må ta i betraktning at den tiden er over. I dag er det ganske lite som kan suges helt fra eget bryst. Det er ikke mulig lenger. Folk har tenkt tankene før. Vår oppgave blir å raffinere dem.