Quotes About Innovation

David Ogilvy: "If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

I have never understood the saying 'To think outside the box.' Why would anyone sit inside of a box and then think outside of it. Rather just get out of the box.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

I am waiting for the Last Supper to be served again with a strange new appetizer

When there is a world recession, at some stage the world or major countries will come out of it, and people will spend money again. How can you use your time now to develop something which will be needed when the recession ends?

Strategy is revolution. Everything else is tactics.

Napoleon embodied a new way of fighting wars: a combination of individual genius and mass organization, and objectives far more ambitious than those of his predecessors.

Sin jerarquías, y cuando todas las decisiones están sometidas a constantes revisiones y replanteamientos, la organización se convierte en una maquinaria lenta y pesada, y la puesta en marcha de las ideas adquiere la forma de una idea solo provisional.

Lawrence Freedman

Here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast. —The Red Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass

RAND Corporation,

Cuando en 1914 Ford empezó a tener dificultades para mantener una fuerza de trabajo estable debido a la monotonía y el aburrimiento de la línea de montaje, anunció que pagaría a sus trabajadores cinco dólares diarios. Siempre dijo que ese había sido uno de los «recortes de costes de producción más inteligentes que hemos hecho».

Von Moltke's most radical innovation as a commander, which went against the textbooks of the time, was to divide his army so that both parts could be kept supplied until they would combine for the battle ("march divided; strike united").

Como demostraba la experiencia del Modelo T de Ford, incluso el más diestro fabricante de un producto con costes reducidos al mínimo podía verse superado y atrapado por un producto mejor.

Wilbur and Orville were rapacious misanthropes who were all too happy to stop progress in its tracks by stifling brilliant innovators, particularly Curtiss, all to stuff their pockets with more money than they could spend in ten lifetimes.

The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn't fit, you make alterations.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

For the first time that evening, a small idea was uttered by the representative of this extraordinary company. Schmidt spoke of invigorating the Google PAC, and pushing harder to get their side of the issue better heard. And I thought, Wow. This is a Google solution to this, the most important problem facing this republic? This the most they can imagine?

Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

We're building a technology that takes the magic of Kodak, mixes moving images and sound, and adds a space for commentary and an opportunity to spread that creativity everywhere. But we're building the law to close down that technology. (p. 47)

As tecnologias digitais criam o ambiente propício para uma nova forma de bricolagem, ou "colagem livre", como Brown chama-a. Muitos podem adicionar ou transformar as criações de outros.

Cable TV was also born of a kind of piracy. When

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.