Quotes About Innovation

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

Bicycles are the most efficient vehicles on the planet, 50 times more efficient than cars, and twice as efficient as walking.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

There is nothing worse than imagination without taste.

If the artists are so rich," replied Charlotte, "then tell me how it is that they are never able to escape from little obelisks, dwarf pillars, and urns for ashes? Instead of your thousand forms of which you boast, I have never seen anything but a thousand repetitions.

Tutti i pensieri intelligenti sono già stati pensati, occorre solo tentare di ripensarli.

Combine truth and invention for the sake of a closer approach to reality

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Be in the Present because that is the only moment in which anything new or old can be created.

Conformity kills creativity. Stay curious and ask questions. Be yourself and stand courageous.

Don't fear change. Surprise is the only way to new discoveries. Be playful!

Every Thing starts in Your Mind as a Thought, Dream or a Fantasy. Use your Imagination!

Only dreamers create consciously. Are YOU a dreamer?

The limits of Mao's system have just about been reached. Party cadres say they want the benefits of the Internet, but they also want to be able to censor it. They say they want to be a technological leader of this century, but they restrict innovation. They say they want a modern society, but they cannot relinquish their hold. Those who rule from Beijing want the benefits of change, but they do not want change itself.

Today tinkering is the order of the day as Chinese leaders "cross the river by feeling the stones.

Consider these words from Lech Wa??sa: In the past, you could stand with a gun behind a man who had a pick and a spade and tell him to dig a hole two hundred meters long. But you can't put a man behind someone working creatively, behind a computer, and tell him, "Please devise something original." There is no way to do it

Yet Zhongguancun pales when measured against India's Bangalore, where government-sponsored development efforts started at about the same time. Today Bangalore produces original product, which domestic companies in Zhongguancun have not yet mastered, and Zhongguancun's output badly trails Bangalore's. That's just a reflection of something fundamental: "modern" China cannot keep up with "backward" India when it comes to information technology.

Technocrats evidently believe that to build competitive enterprises they must first eliminate competition.

A clean sheet of paper has no blotches," wrote Mao, "and so the newest and most beautiful words can be written on it, the newest and most beautiful pictures can be painted on it.

Every time you wanted to do something, you'd hope it would score. You'd keep trying and trying, and all of the sudden, something would come right out of left field, like 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' No one had any idea about that one.

Before we can do anything, we must be able to imagine it.

TYLER FORD: A tiger team? What's that?          HANK: Oh, sorry. It's a group of people that are put together to solve a problem that no particular unit in the company is responsible for. So the boss picks a

number of people, throws the problem their way, and says, "Don't bother me again until you have a solution." That's a tiger team. Get what I'm saying?