Quotes About Innovation

Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.' The

Picture this scenario: You are in an organization where everyone is making decisions, solving important problems every day, and teaching others what they've learned," Erik says. "Your adversary is an organization where only the top leaders make decisions. Who will win? Your victory is inevitable.

While we're dreaming big dreams here, let me say this," he continues. "In ten years, I'm certain every COO worth their salt will have come from IT. Any COO who doesn't intimately understand the IT systems that actually run the business is just an empty suit, relying on someone else to do their job.

this is what an effective network is all about—when you can assemble a group of motivated people to solve a big problem, even though the team looks nothing like the official org chart.

now some of the best engineers in the company are working on making everyone else more productive. That's the way it should be, she thinks.

Doing this requires disruption and innovation, which puts us at odds with groups who are currently responsible for daily operations and the internal bureaucracies, and who will almost always win.

New local knowledge is exploited globally throughout the organization.

These days, great teams doing consumer-oriented products have ratios of 1:6 because it's that important to create products that people love.

The more assumptions we can invalidate, the faster we can find and fix problems, increases our resilience, agility, and ability to learn and innovate.

Something is really screwy in the world when I'm finding reasons to thank Development and Security in the same day.

Another way we can enable more market-oriented outcomes is by enabling product teams to become more self-sufficient by embedding Operations engineers within them, thus reducing their reliance on centralized Operations.

Make infrastructure easier to rebuild than to repair

DevOps isn't about automation, just as astronomy isn't about telescopes.

Humor is the lifeblood that keeps new careers alive.

Creativity comes with that little bit of extra effort.

Inspiration is usually stingy.

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.

Star Trek' says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived. Gene Roddenberry

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

And Irene hadn't broken the letter of any ordinances – she hoped. She'd just jumped up and down on the spirit of them, then taken them down a dark alley and made some pointed suggestions at knife-point.

The only problem is that it's difficult to imagine something entirely new. We use the words and definitions of the past to shape our ideas. Something that is genuinely the next evolutionary step is unlikely to resemble anything we can imagine. Even the best books on the subject are limited." She'd

And on the few occasions when it simply hadn't been invented and you had indeed introduced the alternate to a whole new concept, you could end up with problems like cold fusion.

I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.