Quotes About Innovation

take advantage of a valuable alternative that is superior to what precedes it

the time difference between formal discovery and first implementation

Even trial and error are a form of barbell.

we should first make things more robust to defects and forecast errors, or even exploit these errors, making lemonade out of the lemons.

In fact, economic growth comes from such risk taking.

Traders were replaced by computers, for very small visible benefits and massively large risks.

The strength of the computer entrepreneur Steve Jobs was precisely in distrusting market research and focus groups—those based on asking people what they want—and following his own imagination. His modus was that people don't know what they want until you provide them with it.

in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking in the same place twice.

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

Some blindness to the odds or an obsession with their own positive Black Swan is necessary for entrepreneurs to function. The

Living on our planet, today, requires a lot more imagination than we are made to have.

Trial and error is freedom.

Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

Even Fleming lost faith in the idea before it was subsequently revived.

Change for the sake of change, as we see in architecture, food, and lifestyle, is frequently the opposite of progress.

the drastic changes brought about by unpredictable discoveries

Nunca pergunte às pessoas o que elas querem, ou para onde querem ir, ou para onde pensam que deveriam ir, ou, pior ainda, o que elas pensam que desejarão amanhã. A força do empreendedor do ramo da computação Steve Jobs estava, precisamente, em desconfiar das pesquisas de mercado e dos grupos de foco — aqueles com o objetivo de perguntar às pessoas o que elas querem — e seguir sua própria imaginação.

too high a rate of mutation prevents locking in the benefits of previous changes: evolution (and progress) requires some, but not too frequent, variation.

The dream of having computers behave like humans is coming true, with the transformation, in a single generation, of humans into computers.

There were two main sources of technical knowledge and innovation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the hobbyist and the English rector, both of whom were generally in barbell situations.

Technology is at its best when it is invisible.

developers are getting the benefits others pay for.

The future ain't what it used to be," Berra

Further, the random element in trial and error is not quite random, if it is carried out rationally, using error as a source of information. if every trial provides you with information about what does not work, you start zooming in on a solution - so every attempt becomes more valuable, more like an expense than an error. And of course you make discoveries along the way.