Quotes About Innovation

is often a good career move for an author.

Our sophistication continuously puts us ahead of ourselves, creating things we are less and less capable of understanding.

Scranton showed that we have been building and using jet engines in a completely trial-and-error experiential manner, without anyone truly understanding the theory. Builders needed the original engineers who knew how to twist things to make the engine work. Theory came later, in a lame way, to satisfy the intellectual bean counter.

In fact, the reason I felt immediately at home in America is precisely because American culture encourages the process of failure, unlike the cultures of Europe and Asia where failure is met with stigma and embarrassment. America's specialty is to take these small risks for the rest of the world, which explains this country's disproportionate share in innovations. Once established, an idea or a product is later "perfected" over there. Volatility

In order to progress, modern society should be treating ruined entrepreneurs in the same way we honor dead soldiers, perhaps not with as much honor, but using exactly the same logic (the entrepreneur is still alive, though perhaps morally broken and socially stigmatized

innovation and sophistication spark from initial situations of necessity, in ways that go far beyond the satisfaction of such necessity

And, what's worse, we didn't get where we are today thanks to policy makers—but thanks to the appetite for risks and errors of a certain class of people we need to encourage, protect, and respect.

for decades doctors never suspected that this "useless" tissue might actually have a use that escaped their detection. The

Courage (risk taking) is the highest virtue. We need entrepreneurs.

Every plane crash brings us closer to safety, improves the system, and makes the next flight safer…

once asked Einstein if he carried a notebook to write down ideas. "I never have ideas" was the reply

we got here by accident does not mean that we should continue to take the same risks.

There is more money in designing a shoe than in actually making it: Nike, Dell, and Boeing can get paid for just thinking, organizing, and leveraging their know-how and ideas while subcontracted factories in developing countries do the grunt work and engineers in cultured and mathematical states do the noncreative technical grind

Steve Jobs: «La gente pensa che essere concentrati significhi dire sì alla cosa sulla quale ci si deve focalizzare. Ma non è affatto così. Significa dire no ad altre cento buone idee. Dovete scegliere con cura. Di fatto io sono orgoglioso delle cose che non abbiamo fatto tanto quanto lo sono di quelle che ho fatto. Innovazione significa dire no a mille cose».

A energia em excesso liberada em uma reação exagerada aos contratempos é o que promove a inovação! Essa

The fragility of every startup is necessary for the economy to be antifragile, and that's what makes, among other things, entrepreneurship work: the fragility of individual entrepreneurs and their necessarily high failure rate.

If you think that the inventions we see around us came from someone sitting in a cubicle and concocting them according to a timetable, think again: almost everything of the moment is the product of serendipity.

Corollary to Moore's Law: every ten years, collective wisdom degrades by half.*

growth in society may not come from raising the average the Asian way, but from increasing the number of people in the "tails," that small, very small number of risk takers crazy enough to have ideas of their own

show how some degree of unpredictability (or lack of knowledge) can be beneficial to our defective species.

you need to make more and more to stay in the same place.

A nerd is simply someone who thinks exceedingly inside the box.

We learn from repetition—at the expense of events that have not happened before.

They thought out of the box, like traders, except much better and without fear of introspection.