Quotes About Innovation

Even now, we are using technology to reverse technology.

An American ship carrying mustard gas off Bari in Italy was bombed by the Germans 1942. It helped develop chemotherapy owing to the effect of the gas on the condition of the soldiers who had liquid cancers (eradication of white blood cells). But

So the longer a technology lives, the longer it can be expected to live.

La tesis central de Popper es que, para predecir los sucesos históricos, es necesario predecir la innovación tecnológica, algo en sí mismo fundamentalmente impredecible.

Much progress comes from the young because of their relative freedom from the system and courage to take action that older people lose as they become trapped in life.

in Tony's case, free time was the result of productive insights.

Trial and error means trying a lot.

you make people feel stupid for blindly following habits, instincts, and traditions.

It contradicts modern methods and ideas of innovation and progress on many levels, as we tend to think that innovation comes from bureaucratic funding, through planning, or by putting people through a Harvard Business School class by one Highly Decorated Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (who never innovated anything) or hiring a consultant (who never innovated anything).

the most successful businesses are precisely those that know how to work around inherent unpredictability and even exploit it.

when you have a very limited loss you need to get as aggressive, as speculative, and sometimes as "unreasonable" as you can be.

We need people to take (bounded) risks.

Why anything with optionality has a long-term advantage

Today's materials allow us to avoid such constraint.

Remember that positive Black Swans have a necessary first step: you need to be exposed to them.

The strategy for the discoverers and entrepreneurs is to rely less on top-down planning and focus on maximum tinkering and recognizing opportunities when they present themselves.

Likewise, seemingly uninteresting results that go unnoticed, can, years later turn out to be breakthroughs.

You cannot look at the future by naive projection of the past.

get a profession that is "scalable," that is, one in which you are not paid by the hour and thus subject to the limitations of the amount of your labor.

Los emprendedores son unos héroes en nuestra sociedad. Fracasan por el resto de nosotros

they were of no use to anyone outside IBM.

Wouldn't that be stifling?

If you are an idea person, you do not have to work hard, only think intensely.

the courage to put forth their ideas