Quotes About Innovation

Steve Jobs's first story involved connecting dots, and it began with a most unusual promise.

Wozniak had a breakthrough: He had pulled together chips, a power supply, a monitor, and a keyboard.

chant: "We need a _____ floppy; We need a _____ floppy!" Jobs agreed only to include a floppy drive on a later model. Still, the Japanese company Canon was impressed enough to invest $100 million in 1989 for a 16.7 percent piece of the company, giving NeXT important cash while it tried to roll out its computers. By then, however, much had changed in the

Though he was neither an engineer nor a computer geek, he helped create one gotta-have-it product after another by always designing it with you and me, the actual users, in mind. Unknown to those listening to him that day, more insanely

On a warm June day in 2005, Steve Jobs went to his first college graduation—as the commencement speaker. The billionaire founder and leader of Apple Computer wasn't just another stuffed-shirt businessman. Though only fifty years old, the college dropout was a technology rock star, a living legend to millions of people around the world. In

businessman. Though only fifty years old, the college dropout was a technology rock star, a living legend to millions of people around the world. In his early twenties, Jobs almost single-handedly introduced the world

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. —Abraham Maslow

Believe me, dulcea??, the advent of the mini is forever emblazoned on my mind.

I want to remake the whole world; anything less is not worth the trouble.

I want to remake the world; anything less is not worth the trouble.

In fact, vibrators were one of the first appliances to be electrified in the late nineteenth century, not long after the sewing machine but well ahead of the vacuum cleaner. It seems the Victorians had their priorities right.

Tradition, indeed, but the present is built on the past.

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

What remains indisputable, however, is her genius for navigating the waters of her own vision, for discovering it, nurturing it, and never abandoning it.

A fecking flamethrower! Why didn't I think of that? Best I came up with was a measly hair dryer.

A túlélés egyetlen módja az, ha új utakat keresel az életed folytatására.

He's the ultimate plagiarist, copying what others do if it proves successful and putting his own spin on it, which really pisses me off, because it`s far more difficult to come up with the original idea than steal someone else`s and spruce it up a bit.

Study the terrain. If you can't move yourself, find something that moves the world.

we use the term countermeasure instead of solution, to aid in creating a continuous improvement culture, which begins with how people think and speak. The word solution smacks of an over-the-wall, permanent-fix mindset, which discounts the ever-changing world we work and live in.

Improvements are temporary countermeasures, not permanent solutions.

While the current state briefing is often sobering, it's a helpful psychological space from which to accept the need for change and generate innovative future state thinking

designing the ability to operate with fewer customer complaints, less firefighting, and reduced interdepartmental tension brings tremendous hope to leaders and their staffs who may be feeling the pressure from an underperforming value stream.

He tried to scrub children's vomit from the webbing of the Tongue in a way that suggested deep reservoirs of genius.

We've been working out of our tin can for half a decade. Nobody suggests moving into a brick-and-mortar office; nobody wants to peer through glass windows, in a building with a foundation, and admit that the insomnia emergency is now a permanent condition.