Quotes About Innovation

Knowledge advances as much through negative results and thwarted hypotheses as it does by theories that prove to be correct.

We don't all need to be geniuses; some of us just need to practical applicators and adapters.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.

A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something to be 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.' (NYRB, Vol. LX, No. 17)

You gotta imagine what's never been.

Sue Stauffacher

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

The ability to seize initiative is the most essential quality of any truly successful manager.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.

If you're intent on making a path through the woods and you come to a tree that's in the way, the tree has to go or the path has to change course. You keep making those choices until you have your path. After the thing was done , I realized, You just do it~that's how you do it. You have to figure it out. 'There ain't no rules around here,' said Thomas Edison, 'We're Trying To Accomplish Something.

The devices meant to float at sea and capture the waves' power have been destroyed in short order by . . . the waves. "they've all been smashed up in storms," Challenor said, shaking his head.

He even experimented on himself, hammering a sleeve into his own skull. Once this was accomplished, it was then possible to insert electrodes and inject chemicals "through small needles anywhere in the brain.

When they established a college—Harvard, in 1636—they equipped it with its own brewery.

There is a way you can make incredible music without following the so-called formula.

I don't really think my work breaks into periods. In fact, if you listen to my work in all its so-called periods, what you should hear is continuity.

In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and everyone bought it.

I've had a couple of storylines in the past that have never been done by a soap before, which is nice.

I am not a soap star. I want to create a niche for myself through other mediums.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.