Quotes About Innovation

As each guest entered, they were handed a long wand—actually a puppeteer's arm rod—with a bright foam butterfly attached at the end, one of the thousands put together by the Muppet Workshop over the last three days.

Work smarter, not harder," was Scrooge's motto, and his stories were full of inventive schemes that, more often than not, made him even richer and more successful. In Scrooge's world, hard work paid off, yes — but so did cleverness and a desire to do something in a way no one had ever thought of before.

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

The habit of creativity is more powerful than talent alone.

Great creations use something we understand to give us something we've never experienced.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness . . . the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.

If you ever wonder where your dreams come from, look around: this is where they're made." -Georges Méliès

I soon found out that I wasn't the only magician to turn to cinema. Many of us recognized that a new kind of magic had been invented, and we wanted to be part of it.

The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to the movies when he was just a boy, when the movies were new. Hugo's father had stepped into a dark room, and on a white screen he had seen a rocket fly right into the eye of the man in the moon. Father said he had never experienced anything like it. It had been like seeing his dreams in the middle of the day.

Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

At Google, one of our favorite mottoes is "Failure is an option." It's widely recognized that if you're not failing now and then, you're not being innovative enough or taking enough risks.

When put on the spot, most people won't say much about this, but there are usually a few things that everyone would like to do in the next five years: get promoted, learn something new, launch something important, and work with smart people.

The most relevant precursor to today's computers is the Jacquard loom,

To quote one company that makes beacon systems, "beacons are ushering in the indoor mobile marketing revolution.

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)

The hypnagogic state is considered by many to be a genius state, without boundaries or any limitations.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.

Our job is to invent new things. It's not to know everything.

Artificial intelligence is very powerful and it can help us do amazing things, but it also has the potential to do great harm. We need to approach it with caution, and we need to make sure that we're thinking about the long-term implications of the technology.