Quotes About Innovation

Scandinavians design has also been driven by the idea of inclusiveness rather than exclusiveness — affordable, practical, yet beautiful objects for everyone.

he—I do wish somebody would think up a new collective pronoun—

Now picture the suspenders attached to a pair of sweatpants. This vision is what first led me to coin the term "camel balls.

Then his real struggle would begin. Then he would try to make them understand that the old ways were no more.

Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching.

That we may accept a limitation on our actions but never, under no circumstances, must we accept restriction on our thinking.

Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

Men of today have learnt to shoot without missing and so I have learnt to fly without perching.

We may accept limitations on our actions but never . . . on our thinking.

Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it.

Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve.

Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve. (Think about that for a moment.)

From filmmakers to bloggers, producers of all sorts that start in the Tail with few expectations of commercial success can afford to take chances. They're willing to take more risks, because they have less to lose. There's no need for permission, a business plan, or even capital. The tools of creativity are now cheap, and talent is more widely distributed than we know.

But when you want to mark a number on an abacus, what do you do if there are no stones in a column? The number 60 is one wedge in the sixties column and no wedges in the ones column. How do you write "no wedges"? The Babylonians needed a placeholder that represented nothing. They had to, in effect, invent zero. And so they created a new character, with no value, to signify an empty column. They denoted it with two slanted wedges.

El modelo tradicional de promoción, comercialización y distribución de música ha perdido vigencia. Los principales sellos discográficos y el sistema de distribución minorista que adquirió dimensiones colosales gracias a la fábrica de éxitos de la radio se encuentran con un modelo empresarial dependiente de los grandes éxitos; y ahora ya no hay suficientes discos de oro y de platino. Estamos asistiendo al fin de una era.

El proceso de fabricar cosas ha empezado a parecerse más al proceso de producción digital.

Whatever Microsoft product you use or have an interest in, there's an engineer or product manager carrying on a conversation in public about it.

The overwhelming trend of our age is to take products that were once delivered as physical goods, find ways to turn them into data, and stream them into your home.

So everything is an algorithm now. And just as every Google search uses its algorithms to produce a different result for each person searching, so can algorithms customize products for their consumers. For

When you can dramatically lower the costs of connecting supply and demand, it changes not just the numbers, but the entire nature of the market.

The way to compete with free is to move past the abundance to find the adjacent scarcity.

1. If it's digital, sooner or later it's going to be free.

3. You can't stop free.

Every time a new technology enables more choice, whether it's the VCR or the Internet, consumers clamor for it. Choice is simply what we want and, apparently, what we've always wanted.