Quotes About Innovation

Cualquier cosa de Kevin Kelly, la más reciente es The Inevitable.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." –Oscar Wilde

Si produces bastantes ideas malas, se te ocurrirán algunas buenas «La gente con dificultades para tener buenas ideas, si te cuenta la verdad, te dirá que tampoco tiene muchas ideas malas.

The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals. Doing big things begins with asking for them properly.

I believe you shouldn't start a business unless people are asking you to.

Let's come up with as many ideas as possible, and then put them under scrutiny, and basically try to kill them off, and if they were unkillable, then we'd keep going with them.

La productividad es para los robots. Si los humanos van a ser realmente buenos en algo será haciendo preguntas, siendo creativos y teniendo experiencias.»

And by "unreasonably effective," I mean something quite specific: Something is unreasonably effective if it seems to be useful outside the scope of its assumptions, outside the scope of the context in/for which it was developed.

Almost every guest has been able to take obvious "weaknesses" and turn them into huge competitive advantages

You guarantee a good meal by picking the recipes well, not by following recipes well.

What I prefer over trends is a sense of mission. That you are working on a unique problem that people are not solving elsewhere.

It's good not to follow the herd. Go the other way. If everyone's going that way, you go this other way. You're gonna stumble, but you're also gonna stumble upon an idea no one came up with. . . .

Peter expands: "I think of problems as gold mines. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them.

Lo diferente es mejor cuando es más efectivo o más divertido. Si todo el mundo plantea o resuelve un problema de una determinada manera con resultados deficientes, es hora de preguntarse: ¿qué pasaría si hiciera lo contrario? No sigas un modelo que no funcione. Si la receta es una porquería, no importa lo buen cocinero que seas.

Invierte un poco más de tiempo en hacerlo un poco más humano o (dependiendo del negocio) un poco más divertido, un poco más diferente, o un poco más lo que sea. Valdrá la pena, y ése es mi estímulo.» (Véase el mejor

But," you might ask, "what about a first, like colonizing Mars?" There are still recipes. Look

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

if we move beyond the education bubble that we're living in today, the future will be one in which people can speak about these things more clearly.

Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees, but that's just the beginning.

Don't worry about what you're going to do with the rest of your life. Just find a profitable and interesting use for the next three to five years.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." –Oscar Wilde Irish writer, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray

A problem is a terrible thing to waste." This is highly related to the "scratch your own itch" thread that pops up throughout this book. Peter expands: "I think of problems as gold mines. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

May all of your creations have just the right flavor,