Quotes About Innovation

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got.

Ruth Graves Wakefield, inventor of the chocolate chip cookie — and the greatest hero in American history!

When told the reason for Daylight Saving Time the old Indian said, "Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket."

Necessity is the mother of not only invention but death.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

When all else fails, sprinkle glitter on it.

If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white with a roller.

She wondered whether the world's problems might be solved by access to the stars. Or simply exported.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. —Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, 1816

If you want people to grow, you have to let them take risks, and you have to let them fail.

They quickly discerned the advantages of utilizing columns of numbers or place numbers in the style of Arabic numerals, and they introduced the use of zero, negative numbers, and algebra in China.

the word algorithm was derived from al Khwarizm

The Europeans, who had been cut off from the mainstream of civilization since the fall of Rome, eagerly drank in the new knowledge, put on the new clothes, listened to the new music, ate the new foods, and enjoyed a rapidly escalating standard of living in almost every regard.

Under the widespread influences from the paper and printing, gunpowder and firearms, and the spread of the navigational compass and other maritime equipment, Europeans experienced a Renaissance, literally a rebirth, but it was not the ancient world of Greece and Rome being reborn: It was the Mongol Empire, picked up, transferred, and adapted by the Europeans to their own needs and culture

The Mongols made no technological breakthroughs, founded no new religions, wrote few books or dramas, and gave the world no new crops or methods of agriculture. Their own craftsmen could not weave cloth, cast metal, make pottery, or even bake bread. They manufactured neither porcelain nor pottery, painted no pictures, and built no buildings. Yet, as their army conquered culture after culture, they collected and passed all of these skills from one civilization to the next.

The industrial revolution did not begin in villages such as Kahl, in the workshops of skilled urban craftsmen, or even in the factories of Manchester and Liverpool—it began in the mines and on the plantations of America.

as Google CEO Larry Page put it in his 2014 TED talk: "The main thing that has caused companies to fail, in my view, is that they missed the future.

Look, anyone can manage for the short term—just keep squeezing the lemon. And anyone can manage for the long—just keep dreaming. You were made a leader because someone believed you could squeeze and dream at the same time.

Today, all arrows point toward the biotech, nanotech, and information technology industries, and the convergence among them.

when the rate of change inside an institution becomes slower than the rate of change outside, the end is in sight. The only question is when.

The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

New needs need new techniques.

cultural evolution; once it takes off, it goes as the ratio of those two numbers goes, at least a hundred times faster than biological evolution.