Quotes About Innovation

Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking

Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.

When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d'être violent et original dans vos Å"uvres.

Sé ordinario y metódico en tu vida para que puedas ser violento y original en tu trabajo

ART – Leads to the poorhouse. What's the use of it, since we're replacing it with machines that do better and work faster?

BALLOONS – With balloons we will end up going to the moon. We shan't be able to navigate them any time soon.

The passions have been sufficiently interpreted; the point now is to discover new ones.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

The first follower is what transforms the lone nut into a leader," and in a startup, that first follower is usually a cofounder.

Paranoyak bir giriÅŸimciden daha beteri, olsa olsa köpeÄŸiyle konuÅŸan paranoyak bir giriÅŸimcidir. Fikirlerini serbestçe anlatmakla kaybedeceÄŸinden daha çok kazanacaklar?n var - geribeslenim, baÄŸlant?lar, aç?lacak kap?lar. EÄŸer fikrini yal?n biçimde tart??man onu savunmas?z k?l?yorsa, o zaman gerçek anlamda bir fikrin yok demektir.

The genesis of great companies is answering simple questions that change the world, not the desire to become rich.

people may recognize one founder as the innovator, but it takes a team to make a new venture work.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late. —Reid Hoffman

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

The wisest course of action is to take your best shot with a prototype, immediately get it to market, and iterate quickly. If you wait for ideal circumstances in which you have all the information you need (which is impossible), the market will pass you by.

His idea is to get your team together and pretend that your product has failed. That's right: failed, cratered, imploded, or "went aloha oe," as we say in Hawaii. You ask the team to come up with all the reasons why the failure occurred. Then each member has to state one reason until every reason is on a list. The next step is to figure out ways to prevent every reason from occurring.

picked a short, generic, evergreen hashtag: #MotoX.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny . . ." —Isaac Asimov

Call me idealistic, but the genesis of great companies is answering simple questions that change the world, not the desire to become rich.