Quotes About Innovation

If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great.

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems.

Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.

In today's world, I probably would like to work with someone like Gaga.

Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.

The designer must think first and work later.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

All progress is experimental.

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration.

What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

And that's the secret. Timing, hard work and smart partners. Using that formula, I've either founded or funded over 80 companies, and none have gone bankrupt. Most have done very well.

I think the thing that I've learned is that really great people, they actually want to work on hard problems.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

Establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society and work to their heart's content.

If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.