Quotes About Innovation

You have to try new things. You can hate failure, but you mustn't let the fear of it paralyze you.

To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.

The Mittelbunders attacked Brussels, taking advantage of the fact that the cold weather meant that many of Boulanger's steam engines were failing to perform well. Boulanger was not a fool and tried to convert his artillery back over to conventional horsepower, but was hampered by the fact that his men had already eaten most of Brussels' horses – and were making a good start on the cats and dogs, too.

There was a time when our minds were always on a roll. We used boxes and sticks to become astronauts and artists. We created fantasy characters and outrageous worlds. We drew whimsical pictures and cooked up wild ideas. We were complete originals.

As someone once said (and no, it wasn't Einstein), "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination." Let us never confuse the two.

Education is not about acquiring knowledge, but about learning how to think for oneself and apply that knowledge to make a positive difference in the world.

In television, everything is possible and nothing is sure.

He looked for ways in which new ideas could come into being via spontaneous insight rather than conflict.

What is humor, de Bono asks, but the sudden restructuring of existing patterns? If

It is characteristic of insight solutions and new ideas that they should be obvious after they have been found.

But first we have to accept the idea that thinking long and hard about something does not always deliver us better results, and that the brain actually evolved to make us think on our feet.

Ilya Prigogine, chemist; John

Creative people take their intuition seriously, looking for patterns where others see confusion, and are able to make connections between discrete areas of knowledge.

It is a myth that there is one "creative personality." Something all creative people seem to share is complexity—they "tend to bring the entire range of human possibilities within themselves.

We are actually programmed to get satisfaction and pleasure from discovery and creativity, he says, because its results lead to our survival as a species. New

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

Poder derrotar a la competencia se basa en la calidad del producto. Diseñar métodos de producción a prueba de tontos, instrumentarlos con cuidado, vigilar cada proceso en forma minuciosa, y mejorar los métodos de manera continua.

Cuando los diseñadores desarrollaban la Liberty Tree Tavern, Walt Disney les dijo que había un solo concepto básico: "quiero que las personas vayan a un edificio de cinco millones de dólares a comprar hamburguesas de cinco centavos". Desde aquel día, el precio de las hamburguesas ha aumentado considerablemente, pero la premisa de proporcionar un gran valor sigue allí.

No substantial change has ever been managed without risk.