Quotes About Innovation

The first instinct that he indulged was his passion for design. The name he chose for his new company was rather straightforward: Next. In order to make it more distinctive, he decided he needed a world-class logo. So he courted the dean

In 1482, the year he turned thirty, Leonardo da Vinci left Florence for Milan, where he would end up spending the next seventeen years.

And you can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate to customers.

In September 1998, one month after they met with Bechtolsheim, Page and Brin incorporated their company, opened a bank account, and cashed his check. On the wall of the garage they put up a whiteboard emblazoned "Google Worldwide Headquarters.

Ward Cunningham's wiki software.

Gates soutint le regard de Jobs, puis se mit à crier aussi, de sa voix de fausset : — Il y a une autre façon de voir les choses, Steve ! Xerox était notre riche voisin à tous les deux, et quand je suis entré chez lui pour lui voler sa télévision, j'ai découvert que tu l'avais déjà emportée !

The digital age could not become truly transformational until computers became truly personal.

The ability of Isaacson to write books that capture an age as well as a man makes him one of our best and most important biographers. Steve Jobs shows Isaacson at his best." —Foreign

really don't apply to Apple's culture." Levitt later

que se convertiría en otro ejemplo de cómo la financiación pública de la investigación especulativa se amortiza a la larga cientos de veces en aplicaciones prácticas.

se describe al director ejecutivo ideal como una persona expansiva, reflexiva y de acción. Grove se dio cuenta de que, en lugar de estar encarnados en un solo individuo, esos rasgos podían darse en un equipo directivo.

Shockley had the ability to visualize quantum theory, how it explained the movement of electrons, the way a choreographer can visualize a dance.

One aspect of innovation is inventing new devices; another is inventing popular ways to use these devices.

Si quieres vivir de forma creativa, como un artista, no debes mirar demasiado hacia atrás. Tienes que estar dispuesto a recoger todo lo que eres y todo lo que has hecho y arrojarlo por la ventana.

the way that good ideas often blossom: a bumblebee brings half an idea from one realm, and pollinates another fertile realm filled with half-formed innovations

The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste

silver Mercedes parked in a handicapped spot. Steve Jobs was inside screaming at his car phone. This was right before the first iMac was unveiled and I'm pretty sure I could make out, 'Not. Fucking. Blue. Enough!!!' " As always, Jobs was compulsive in preparing for the dramatic unveiling. Having

Ideas are often generated in physical gathering places where people with diverse interests encounter one another serendipitously. That is why Steve Jobs liked his buildings to have a central atrium and why the young Benjamin Franklin founded a club where the most interesting people of Philadelphia would gather every Friday.

Because I didn't know it couldn't be done, I was enabled to do it.

Plus, for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it's better, it's simpler, and it's at the forefront of technology. That's where Steve likes to be, in both his products and his stores.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

His paper, titled "Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits," was published in the April 1965 issue of Electronics magazine.

their ability to work as teams made them even more creative. The tale of their teamwork is important because we don't often focus on how central that skill is to innovation.

New ideas occur when a lot of random notions churn together until they coalesce.