Quotes About Innovation

In contrast to the traditional idea of creative discovery as great leaps into the unknown by the 'man of genius' - the exploration of the adjacent possible by diverse perspectives can explain autocatalytic innovation within the context of cultural learning and conformity. The growth of diversity is self-accelerating because the size of the possible exponentially increases with the dimensions of the attributes being tinkered with.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

The best computer programmers never write a new program when they can use an old one for a new job.

One of the hardest choices for technical stars who become leaders is losing touch with the latest in technology.

problem-solving leaders have one thing in common: a faith that there's always a better way

Why is it that we reward programmers who work all night to remove the errors they put into their programs, or managers who make drastic organizational changes to resolve the crises their poor management has created? Why not reward the programmers who design so well that they don't have dramatic errors, and managers whose organizations stay out of crisis mode? Organizing

In this business, it takes all the running you can do just to stay in the same place. The

Within IBM at that time, growing a beard without getting fired was an indisputable mark of technical genius. In

In the popular image, a problem-solving leader is a solitary genius, but the true leader prefers to produce a success.

Repeatedly curing a system that can cure itself will eventually create a system that can't.

Rather than fight change, a more sensible approach is to learn to live with it. Or to make a living from it.

Victor Hugo once said that nothing in this world was so powerful as an idea whose time has come. In our time, the idea is technology, especially information processing technology. The programmer partakes of this technology power

the more adapted an organism was to present conditions, the less adaptable it tended to be to unknown future conditions.

Fisher's Fundamental Theorem states—in terms appropriate to the present context—that the better adapted a system is to a particular environment, the less adaptable it is to new environments.

So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

A good imitation is the most perfect originality.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it!

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.

Think sideways!

Every new time will give its law.