Quotes About Innovation

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Good design is good business.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

The best way to get a good idea is to get a Lot of ideas. —LINUS PAULING

They overlook the possibility that brainstorming can be a skill, an art, more like playing the piano than tying your shoes.

Good companies embrace a culture of mini-failures.

I don't know about you, but I think nine out of ten college guys would agree: More cold beer in the same space is a genuine innovation.

Good brainstorms are extremely visual. They include sketching, mind mapping, diagrams, and stick figures. You don't have to be an artist to get your point across with a sketch or diagram.

We're not big fans of focus groups. We don't much care for traditional market research either. We go to the source. Not the "experts" inside a company, but the actual people who use the product or something similar to what we're hoping to create.

Saccharin was discovered in 1879 when a research fellow at Johns Hopkins University found his bread extra sweet one night and figured that something from the lab must have followed him home. Incredibly, he set about to tasting nearly everything in his lab—and lived to find o-benzoic sulfimide—saccharin by any other name.

For an individual, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in the same way and expecting different results. For a government, such behaviour is called...policy.

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

Le Verrier left the solar system larger than he found it - one both better and less completely understood.

The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish.

Creativeness is the ability to see relationships where none exist.

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

True change takes place in the imagination.

The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws. The problem is that it was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists.