Quotes About Innovation

This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.

About my method of work: first it's the state of mind—Elation (joy).

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.

If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.

Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

You've got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around.

The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

If you look at any designer you admire, whose work inspires you, and whose approach somehow resonates with you, I promise you'll find a person who does not think of what they do as just their job