Quotes About Innovation

Plain hard work is good and important, but it is ideas that drive us, as individuals, companies, nations, and a global community. Creativity is what makes us unique, inspired, and fulfilled.

I realized that a company can build a business, do good in society, and have fun. These three goals can run alongside one another, without being dominated by the bottom line.

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks; they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass." Hashtags, @replies, and retweets emerged in just that way. Shortly

said, "Those are cool. I have an idea." He brought me over to his desktop to explain. Together we looked at his buddy list on AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). There was a little feature called Status. It was there so you could say that you were away from your desk or out to lunch, and so on, so people would know why you weren't responding to their messages.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical itself. It's interesting to see that development.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

You know why we don't have solar energy? It's because the sun goes away each day, and it doesn't tell us where it's going!

Technology is changing the way we live and we work and we think. It's going to transform the world, and yet I think there is an alarming sort of disconnect between the world of public policy-making, and the world of technology.

We became complacent; we became the managers of the status quo, not the change makers, and we've got to renew the center.

Such music is not only a new art form but a new reason for living.

Et ne voulez-vous pas vous amuser, c'est-à-dire, détruire, créer, réussir, perdre? bref, faire quelque chose de nouveau et de gai, sans autre arrière-pensée que de jouir, jouir de la minute présente, flottante, incertaine, fugitive, et pourtant violente comme un explosif?

The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.

Imagination decides everything.

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

What is now proved was only once imagined.

If you never take risks in life, you'll never see anything new

The judges say, make it your own, so I just remixed a song if I felt like the piece needed it

I make my own pants because I don't wear jeans. They are like golf pants. I just like to put a little funk into everything.

True originality can't begin until you know what you're breaking away from.

To know how to avoid the cliche, to know what tradition you are pushing forward, begins with knowing what that tradition is.

You can be near the cliché, you can dance around it, you can run right up to it and almost embrace it. But at the last second you must turn away. You must give it a twist.

Like eating too much marzipan, a little goes a long way where ideas are concerned. And more does not always mean better.

The Foundation of Empire is Art & Science Remove them or Degrade them & the Empire is No More.

These companies were searching for something indefinable and immeasurable, something that went beyond the standard definitions of success in business, something that could easily be lost unless it was protected against the homogenizing influences brought to bear on every company. I call that quality mojo. (See the introduction.) If you are not involved in helping to generate mojo, you have nothing to contribute except, perhaps, capital, and the capital usually comes at too high a price.