Quotes About Innovation

Young Bell and Edison were the same age, each improving the major invention that the other had come up with first, Edison following Bell, then Bell following Edison. Edison, in fact, had been close to devising a working telephone himself. After Bell's success, the next best thing for Edison was to come up with an indispensable improvement, the carbon transmitter that captured the human voice far better than Bell's magnetic design. Edison

But one immediate benefit of the press's marveling was that the extensive coverage supplied Edison with creative ideas about how the phonograph could be adapted for many more uses than telegraphy or senatorial speeches.

Launch Fast" is Paul Graham's mantra. Move from the idea to a minimally functional product as quickly as possible. Only by getting a product into the hands of customers, even if the product is only a prototype, is it possible to know what customers want.1 Launching fast is how to make something people want. Judging by the advice that they

Graham conveys the sense that good ideas are plentiful, waiting for someone to come along and pluck them off the ground. "There's a bunch of things like that," he says.

many of his pranks involved electric shock—these stunts gain interest in retrospect, knowing as we do of Edison's future work on the ultimate instrument of shock, the electric chair. In

invention should not be pursued as an exercise in technical cleverness, but should be shaped by commercial needs.

HAVING ONE'S OWN shop, working on projects of one's own choosing, making enough money today so one could do the same tomorrow: These were the modest goals of Thomas Edison when he struck out on his own as full-time inventor and manufacturer. The grand goal was nothing other than enjoying the autonomy of entrepreneur and forestalling a return to the servitude of employee.

My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

When we make something hard to use, people get upset. They become so angry that they want to destroy it. We don't want to create things that people will want to destroy

When you're putting people on the moon, you're inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved.

They were thinking: "I don't know who this guy is, but I'm definitely coming to class tomorrow to check out his next stunt." I sure got their attention. That's always the first step to solving an ignored problem.

The sane universities never went near this stuff, but Carnegie Mellon gave us explicit license to break the mold.

Chúng ta không ??i ???c nh?ng quân bài ?ã chia,ch? có th? ??i cách ch?i nh?ng quân bài ?ó.

We don't want to create things that people will want to destroy.

But engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

Who remembers that it was Kirk who introduced us to the cell phone?

Instead of "I think we should do A, not B," try "What if we did A, instead of B?" That allows people to offer comments rather than defend one choice.

I had just two rules for their virtual reality worlds: No shooting violence and no pornography. I issued that decree mostly because those things have been done in computer games only about a zillion times, and I was looking for original thinking.

Pour le pouvoir, l'ennemi numéro UN, c'est la créativité individuelle s'irradiant librement.

It's so easy to fall into ruts and niches in our real lives, and I want online worlds to offer us exotic experiences and interaction with people we wouldn't interact with otherwise, and a chance to try out lifestyles and worldviews we otherwise wouldn't have, a chance to try to solve problems that we find difficult to tackle in the real world. Otherwise, why bother making them?

Great people are those who make great effort to achieve innovative ideas against great opposition and great forces, and succeed in the shaping of history.

I wish all nations name their national airports after scientists and artists.

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.