Quotes About Innovation

I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.

Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemon grenades?

Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemonade grenades?

He's brilliant—he could have made millions in Silicon Valley, but he'd rather teach and mentor students," she says. "Not enough of those kind of people out there.

You know damn well that's not how the wire works, and if you weren't afraid of it, you'd have one yourself. It's the same as the implants, just like the dollie-slots, but it gives me an edge, yeah, because I'm not afraid of it, of what I can do with it.

Intellectual capital includes everything an organization knows. That can be ideas, different kinds of knowledge, and innovations. The bottom line, though, is that it's knowledge that an organization can turn into profit.

I learned how to make something out of almost nothing, instead of nothing out of something.

reactionaries.

It's not about the young or the old; it's about anyone who takes something from his or her imagination and makes it real. --Thom Beers, Executive Producer

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation.' Pearl S. Buck

Say why not? rather than why?

Base Camp, We need advice. ... We've run out of Earth

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

Men cannot change if there are no blueprints for change.

What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.

The insidious nature of socialism, cloaked in a façade of compassion, makes it very dangerous to an uneducated and trusting populace. And as socialism creates dependency, it is well on its way to eliminating freedom of choice and incentives for high productivity and innovation.

creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

We also need a way to regulate the way some companies and individuals buy up patents of promising ideas that would threaten their sources of revenue.

Today we produce only 60,000 to 70,000 engineers per year, 40 percent of whom are foreigners, while China produces over 400,000 engineers per year.

small businesses create 80 percent of the private sector jobs in this country.

We have no choice but to scramble to retrace our steps and to try, in a hurry now, to imagine things differently: other worlds, other ways of thinking, living, seeing. Other ways of writing, and of reading.

The rise of original, risk-taking television is directly tied to the decline of original, risk-taking filmmaking and the dawn of the franchise age of film—one in which studios no longer coddle creative talent, release movies of every type for everyone, or pride themselves for taking risks on quality and new ideas. Instead, movie studios now exist primarily for the purpose of building and supporting branded franchises that continue in sequels, toys, and theme-park attractions.

The first section takes Sony Pictures as a focal point to explain how we got to where

The second section of the book leaves Sony behind, along with Hollywood's past, to look at companies, trends, and people that reveal where the movie business