Quotes About Innovation

Warner Studios official in the era of silent movies: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

Defeat is embracing what doesn't work

Growth is impossible if we continue to do things the same way

We are constantly creating. The question is what are we creating?

The Chinese write the word "crisis" with the same symbol as the word "opportunity.

The view that the world has now entered a new era of the 'knowledge economy', in which making things does not confer much value, is based upon a fundamental misreading of history. We have always lived in a knowledge economy.

Today, Korea is one of the most 'inventive' nations in the world-it ranks among the top five nations in terms of the number of patents granted annually by the US Patent Office.

the chance of an average developing-country person being an entrepreneur is more than twice that for a developed-country person (30 per cent vs. 12.8 per cent).

A. RONCAGLIA The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought

Breakthrough solutions start with reframed questions, and we are in need of breakthrough solutions in many, many realms.

One can revise the rules, shift the goal posts, but to do so is just to conjure a chimera and mask it as a novum.

Ray Bradbury's entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror.

Writers are a combative bunch when it comes to aesthetics, and the generation before GENRE are born into a discourse that's been brewing since Cervantes.

Slipstream – sorry, infernokrusher - takes a cut-throat razor to the hackneyed clichés of both strange and mundane genres. It cannibalises them, retrofits them, treats them the way Godzilla treats Tokyo, the Burroughs treats Interzone. Smash and grab. Cut up and fold in.

For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like.

The important and difficult job is never to find the right answers. It is to find the right question. - Peter Drucker

approach these questions with a "beginner's mind" - constantly seeing the world with fresh eyes

Questions need places to flourish

What more can I be doing to facilitate the team's progress and minimize its setbacks?

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

Human technology can be so powerful and effective because it accumulates. Cultural

I want to do roles that are fun and challenging and I want to try different things. I don't want to keep doing Monster's Ball over and over and over again. I want to keep doing my career the way that I was doing it before I won the Oscar.

Ideas are no one's monopoly - Dhirubhai Ambani

Not long afterwards it all broke out into the open. The spark was an entirely random and unrelated event. At a big function on the evening of 17 November 2004 attended by the 'cream of corporate captains' in Mumbai, Mukesh had introduced a talk on 'Unlocking Innovation' by the visiting chief executive of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, who had been a classmate at Stanford University's School of Business.