Quotes About Innovation

Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.

Don't evaluate a short ride in physiological terms. Easy pedaling is good thinking time. I get all kinds of ideas for bikes, products, and general life solutions during short rides. The super grand solutions often come after twenty minutes, but you'll get some good ones within five; and if you don't, it's still better than five minutes of sitting down and eating five minutes

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Isn't that what the Peerless is for? Anything too difficult for the home world?

Imagine the time, a dozen generations from now, when wave mechanics powers every machine and everyone takes it for granted. Do you really want them thinking that it fell from the sky, fully formed, when the truth is that they owe their good fortune to the most powerful engine of change in history: people arguing about science.

But what if a large part of your business consists of selling things that put people out of work. Including many of the people who actually pay for the things you're trying to sell.

No wonder most fleshers had stampeded into the polises, once they had the chance: if disease and aging weren't reason enough, there was gravity, friction, and inertia. The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions.

No one objects to the notion that every technological civilisation might undergo its own Introdus.

In life, everybody gets the same three chords. It's what you do with them that matters.

No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be grown! Window sill, fire escape and rooftop gardens have the same potential to provide impressive harvests as backyard gardens, greenhouses and community spaces.

Defensive coverage is about anticipation, and offensive effectiveness is essentially the art of surprise.

Okay, and I would suggest to you that understanding problems is just like shooting a picture of a child. You see the challenge better when you shift the angle, when you reframe it.

The ones that test the limits sometimes do the most amazing things in life. That's what I've always thought.

Evolving a widely reused resource also requires coordination because changes must be compatible with all existing systems or users. Such coordination can slow down innovation... Some digital companies have even begun to explicitly favor duplication because their business environment rewards economies of speed.

On my team we often reminded ourselves that for each task we have two goals: first, accomplish the task, but also to improve the way it's done in the future.

Enterprise architects in the cloud enterprise should depart from prescriptive roles to become cloud advocates in the boardroom and sparring partners in the engine room.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been. —THEODORE VON KÁRMÁN

the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.

The time and energy that innovators invested in new methods thus yielded a much higher social return than the meager private return they reaped.

But the generalized spillovers from innovation activities are not in practice measurable. Nor is the total amount of activity designed to improve production processes measurable. Investments in innovation occur in all economies. But unknown factors speed and retard this process across different epochs and different economies.

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.