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Quotes About Innovation

Just like the VCR opened the film and TV industries to unimaginable new revenue streams, search, RSS and the Internet will do the same for marketers and media companies.
~ John Battelle
The future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant.
~ Balaji Srinivasan
I refuse to make uninspired music.
~ Ben Harper
Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.
~ Christian Louboutin
Some city-council people are really awesome, but most are uninspired.
~ Travis Kalanick
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
~ Henry Petroski
I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
~ Steve Jobs
Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water everywhere - nor any drop to drink.'
~ Clayton M. Christensen
The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
~ Yves Behar
There's barely any aspect of our modern lives that hasn't had a mathematical contribution at some point and yet, if you asked the average person, they might think that maths is just difficult, irrelevant and uninteresting.
~ Hannah Fry
Competition and competitive rhetoric can be healthy. It's what drove the United States to pursue the Soviet Union into space, creating countless innovations along the way.
~ Wendy Kopp
Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.
~ George Packer
Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punished entrepreneurial activity.
~ Vladimir Potanin
Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
~ John Hutton
Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.
~ Jennifer Granholm
Like patents - which also seek to protect the little guy - unions were started for all the right reasons. But like patents, they can be twisted into something that hurts innovation, competition, and ultimately consumers and the country as a whole.
~ Sarah Lacy
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The concept with Off-White is that I have no ideal target. It's more about trying to make something for everyone. And I think that's what helps make it unique. That there isn't a specific muse.
~ Virgil Abloh
'Minecraft' is to a large degree about having unique experiences that nobody else has had. The levels are randomly generated, and you can build anything you want to build yourself.
~ Markus Persson
A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
~ Michael Porter
It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
~ Tadashi Yanai
Our mission is to accelerate the development of a better financial system; it's not just development of a better Bitcoin financial system, and so we want to back the best teams, who have the biggest ideas, unique solutions to big problems.
~ Barry Silbert
When we were making 'Scam 92,' we knew that it was something unique.
~ Pratik Gandhi