Quotes About Innovation

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

Frederick Taylor

Progress always involves risk you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base.

In the past the man has been first. In the future the System must be first.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

The spirit of man is more powerful than his own machines

There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Most execs, particularly first-time CEOs who get good at one thing, can only dance what they know how to dance.

Just as Clayton Christensen had predicted in The Innovator's Dilemma, technological innovation caused wrenching pain to the company and the broader industry