Quotes About Innovation

A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

when the rules don't work, you break 'em.

Sheesh…we speak badly about those who have only imagination and can't do anything. But once you see somebody who can do anything with just their imagination…it shows you how much easier it is not to have that power.

In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race.

we define connected educators simply as ones who are actively and constantly seeking new opportunities and resources to grow as professionals.

There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.

On the Cancer Frontier

Truly creative people work for work's own sake, and if they make a public discovery or become famous that is a bonus. What

When the Air Force nearly collapsed in the 1970s, he was one of the men who saved it, and rebuilt it in the 1980s, not just fixing the broken parts, but defining what an air force is supposed to be.

Ryan nodded. He understood the phenomenon. "The money is in the dirt, it just has to be dug up or pumped up. The money isn't in innovation or intellectual property or in manufacturing. After a while, a nation loses its ability to innovate and to think and to build things.

The Navy wanted to see just how effective her new quieting systems were.

You are never satisfied, Comrade Captain. I suppose it is men like you who force progress upon us all.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." —Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), mathematician and philosopher

Your business plan should tell a compelling story. It should present a problem that you are going to fix.

it is while prone that ideas come. "A writer could get more ideas for his articles or his novels in this posture than he could by sitting doggedly before his desk morning and afternoon," writes Lin Yutang in his essay "On Lying in Bed.

Long periods of languor, indolence and staring at the ceiling are needed by any creative person in order to develop ideas.

art's purpose: "[What art] seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

Making stuff is easy. Selling it is not.

He believes it's time to redesign Evil from the ground up; to face the challenges and opportunities of a diverse, rapidly changing society. "He's thinking of calling it," said Miss Gold, "New Evil.

In fact, as they will be delighted to tell you, Taunton is no longer a one-horse town; these days, they have a bicycle as well . . .

It's not about just coming up with the one genius idea that solves the problem, but trying and failing at a hundred other solutions before arriving at the best one.

New opportunities for innovation open up when you start the creative problem-solving process with empathy toward your target audience—whether

Design thinking is a way of finding human needs and creating new solutions using the tools and mindsets of design practitioners.

But to act, most of us must first overcome the fears that have blocked our creativity in the past.