Quotes About Innovation

Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo?

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. People come first. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

We are pragmatists. We don't stick to any ideology. Does it work? Let's try it, and if it does work, fine, let's continue it. If it doesn't work, toss it out, try another one. We are not enamored with any ideology.

Image streaming has been widely used for personal growth, corporate problem solving, and think tanking. An additional and unexpected benefit is that in at least one study with physics students at Southwest State University in Minnesota, the students experienced an average 20-point increase in their IQs after only 25 hours of practicing image streaming. Your left brains are probably wondering, "Hey, how can that be? How can people increase their IQs when intelligence is considered,

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

Some of its proponents like to say that string theory is a piece of twenty-first- century mathematics that has, by our good fortune, fallen into our hands in the twentieth century.

One of the hardest lessons to learn in academic life—and for me one of the most disconcerting—is the speed with which a radical insurgency can become orthodoxy. In just a few years a generation of students championing a dangerous new idea are elevated by an initial success into professorships. From these positions of influence they form a powerful network of academic power brokers, which they use to ensure the continuation of the revolution.

Copernicus, 1996). Julian

It's geeks who really make or break a TV show or movie or videogame.

I try not to do anything that's too close to what I've done before. And the nice thing is we have a big universe here. It's filled with new ideas. All you have to do is grab them.

It's a tremendous challenge, because there have been so many characters created over the years. Every time you think you come up with a great name, you find out somebody has already done it. Dreaming up the stories isn't that hard, but coming up with a good title is the toughest part.

If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could anybody say that this wouldn't be as worthwhile an artform as anything on earth?

When you can sit down with a plain sheet of paper in front of you and make some notes, and, little by little, you see it take shape and become a concept for a movie or a TV show. That's a real thrill. You watch it go from notes on a paper to a meeting with writers and directors and actors. I can't think of anything that's more exciting.

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

How can U say one style is better than another. You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you"ve given up something. ... I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene. - Andy Warhol, 1963

Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

p.34: Peter Drucker. La innovación es la competencia central de la empresa moderna competitiva. Tiene que establecerse en el corazón de la organización desde el principio, ALIMENTARSE CONTINUAMENTE CON INVERSIONES Y APOYO EJECUTIVO, y tiene que TRANSFORMARSE SISTEMÁTICAMENTE EN VALOR para la firma.

p.35: Jerry Porras & James Collins. Las compañías más viejas, veteranas, no sólo pueden encontrar un lugar en la nueva economía sino que hasta pueden encabezarla, si han establecido una PODEROSA FILOSOFÍA CORPORATIVA basada en las historias y leyendas de la compañía, que se utilice para ACOSTUMBRAR A TODOS LOS EMPLEADOS A UN MODELO DE COMPORTAMIENTO acorde con esa filosofía.

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea.