Quotes About Innovation

My goal is for General Motors to lead in safe autonomous driving.

Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32.

Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.

I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.

Sometimes you're inspired by an old-school song that you want to chop up and make a sample out of it. I find that with a lot of older Motown music.

The first writers I knew about were Motown's Holland-Dozier-Holland.

the railroad and the steamship affected not only industry and commerce, but also the lives of millions of ordinary people.

The world's first university chair in engineering was founded in Glasgow in 1840.2'x

En general, el mercado es más listo que el más espabilado de sus participantes individuales. ROBERT L. BARTLEY

In general, the market is smarter than the smartest of its individual participants. - Robert L. Bartley

Risk-taking is the mother's milk of capitalism. The Wall Street Journal

Scientific knowledge does not contain within itself directions for its humanitarian use.

Everything is an experiment.

As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.

Palchinsky principles': first, seek out new ideas and try new things; second, when trying something new, do it on a scale where failure is survivable; third, seek out feedback and learn from your mistakes as you go along. The

Here's the thing about failure in innovation: it's a price worth paying. We

Los dispositivos digitales evitan errores pequeños pero preparan el terreno para grandes errores».

So whenever a new technology emerges, it's worth trying to ask who will win and who will lose out as a result. The answer can often surprise us.

In 1775, Cumming patented the S-bend. This became the missing ingredient to create the flushing toilet—and, with it, public sanitation as we know it. Flushing toilets had previously foundered on the problem of smell: the pipe that connects the toilet to the sewer, allowing urine and feces to be flushed away, will also let sewer odors waft back up—unless you can create some kind of airtight seal.

wanted to build a toaster from scratch. He started by taking apart a

gamble in a wartime prison camp should serve as an example to the staff of the World Bank today. We'll discover what the disasters at Three Mile Island and Deepwater Horizon have to tell us about preventing another Lehman Brothers crisis. We'll learn from a watchmaker

We can make two predictions, though. First, the more human inventiveness we encourage, the better that's likely to work out for us.

And, second, with any new invention, it makes sense to at least ask ourselves how we might maximise the benefits and mitigate the risks.

Intellectual property has profoundly shaped who makes money in the modern world.