Quotes About Innovation

Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Hell, there are no rules here, we are trying to accomplish something.

Men have become fools with their tools.

While problem solving is a fundamental skill we all possess, not everyone should have to solve the same problems.

Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.

Without needs, there are no solutions; and without solutions, it's virtually impossible to establish value.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.

Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.

science, properly used, could undo much of the damage men had done.

I would call that field of play--the place in which humans test their natural limits and often break them--science.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

We have conceived a new idea, Inglish. We will send the ito

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

If we can make something decentralised, out of control, and of great simplicity, we must be prepared to be astonished at whatever might grow out of that new medium."34

One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.