Quotes About Innovation

When technology allows, firms with scarcity power may use highly sophisticated methods to target customers.

This book isn't an attempt to identify the fifty most economically significant inventions. It's not a book-length listicle, with a countdown to the most important invention of all. Indeed, some that would be no-brainers on any such list haven't made the cut: the printing press, the spinning jenny, the steam engine, the airplane, and the computer.

Man-made light was once a thing that was too precious to use. Now it is too cheap to notice.

The likes of Google and Target are no more keen to share their datasets and algorithms than Newton was to share his alchemical experiments. Sometimes

Doctors persisted with bloodletting for three hundred years after Van Helmont challenged them to prove that their technique worked. In

other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain. Tim's long-term vision for his company is to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. For everything

make it public. It's not just disagreeing to be disagreeable (pet food! online!), it's disagreeing where you can build

Sonhar o futuro não está reservado aos tecnólogos. O governo do povo, pelo povo e para o povo exige também uma reinvenção massiva para o século XXI.

Understanding that what used to be hard is now free and easy due to the work of others is essential to the leapfrogging progress of technology.

Não sou um economista, político ou financeiro que disponha de respostas rápidas sobre as razões pelas quais as coisas podem ou não podem mudar. Sou um tecnólogo e um empreendedor habituado a reparar nas discrepâncias entre a forma como as coisas são e a forma como poderiam ser, e a fazer perguntas cujas respostas possam apontar o caminho para futuros melhores.

work in progress, but shows the many ideas that radiate

Shakeouts typically mark the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its place at center stage. The pretenders are given the bum's

In Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become? Michael Schrage writes: Successful innovators don't ask customers and clients to do something different; they ask them to become someone different. . . . Successful innovators ask users to embrace—or at least tolerate—new values, new skills, new behaviors, new vocabulary, new ideas, new expectations, and new aspirations. They transform their customers.

these three cases, teasing out some of the essential elements of difference. Netscape vs. Google

opportunity for new entrants is to fully embrace the potential of Web 2.0. Companies that succeed will create applications that learn from

This is my next lesson. If the future is here, but just not evenly distributed yet, find seeds of that future, study them, and ask yourself how things will be different when they are the new normal. What happens if this trend keeps going?

It's a new world, right enough, a world for the taking, and we're the ones who know how to live in it without having to pretend it's a district of England or France or Spain.

Time to experiment. Necessity being the motherfucker of whatever is in its way.

We already have the means to travel among the stars. But these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an Act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.

On October 31, 1952, U.S. Operation Ivy began with the detonation of Mike, the world's first high-yield two-stage thermonuclear device, at the Enewetak Atoll [formerly spelled Eniwetok] in the Pacific. At 10.4 megatons, the experimental liquid deuterium device exceeded the explosive power of all ordnance detonated in World Wars

Writing about music really is like dancing about architecture--and a good thing, too. Everything is like that.

Not every change is a step forward.

You served too long under Lord Vader, Captain. I Have no qualms about accepting a useful idea merely because it wasn't my own. My position and ego are not at stake here.

History is on the move, Captain. Those who cannot keep up will be left behind, to watch from a distance