Quotes About Innovation

All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

everyone will be fighting harder and smarter to win market share. Each company will be searching for a new advantage, in the form of products, technologies, management, locations, prices, among many other variables.

Al inventarse el cine las nubes paradas en las fotografías comenzaron a andar.

Indian Council for Agricultural Research

People such as inventors searching for new material, make their discoveries in a state of self-forgetfulness. It is in a condition of deep intellectual concentration that this forgetfulness of the ego arises and the invention is revealed. This is also a way of developing intuition.

Create an environment that fosters the creative genius within you!"

Trust me, all the innovative ideas that we put into practice, comes not within but outside the workplace!

Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to 'play God', the world as we know it wouldn't exist today.

Like Einstein, Kade thought. The problems we currently face can't be solved at the level of thinking that created them.

Well, that was a huge step. We had an instruction set. We could move data around. We could do conditionals. We could do most of the things a simple chip can do. We had the visual cortex for our display. The auditory cortex for our speakers. The motor cortex for our input. On top of that, we could write any damn software we wanted.

That would've been way too hard. We wanted to do neuroscience, not operating system development. So

The problems we currently face can't be solved at the level of thinking that created them.

Other people will reverse-engineer the technology. They'll remove the safeguards, or figure out how to build a clone system that doesn't have them. That's how it always works. Once the genie is out of the bottle, you can't control what they do.

no power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come".

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

Jobs sardonically said that the charity world was a good place for Bill Gates, since he didn't have anything really creative to do with his time.)

Edison's admirers endowed him with fantastical powers that would permit him to invent anything he wished (one

In Silicon Valley, most engineers work on projects that will never be completed- this holds true at large companies as well as small. If engineers are lucky enough to witness the rare day when the product is completed and launched, they will, in the overwhelming majority of cases, witness the product's failure in the marketplace.

Bell invented the telephone while tinkering with acoustic telegraphy; Edison invented the phonograph while tinkering with the telephone.

The pen would enjoy a second life years later, in the 1890s, when converted into the first electric tattoo needle.)