Quotes About Innovation

If we had borrowed we should not have been under the necessity of finding methods to cheapen production.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Many inventors fail because they do not distinguish between planning and experimenting. The

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

The nineteenth-century clergyman William Barnes preferred wheelsaddle to bicycle and folkwain to omnibus. By the same token forceps would be nipperlings, and pathology would be painlore. Some of his new words recalled the language of Old English poetry: he proposed glee-mote in place of concert, and the wonderful cellar-thane instead of butler.

Czech noun related to the German noun Arbeit and meaning 'forced labour', to signify a new type of 'artificial' being, assembled like a car and programmed to be of service to humans.14 This choice of word was inspired by a conversation with his brother Josef, a painter of the cubist school. It would become an emblem of the future's potential. The

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Find a need and fill it

The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

Our focus should not be on emerging technologies, but on emerging cultural practices.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.

In our period, new technology has been developed, but remains in need of a guiding philosophy.

Porque a mera repetição do que é familiar conduz à estagnação, não é pouca a audácia exigida.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

from Inkpen and Choudhury, 1995:313-323) … Strategy absence need not be associated with organizational failure…. Deliberate building in of strategy absence may promote flexibility in an organization…. Organizations with tight controls, high reliance on formalized procedures, and a passion for consistency may lose the ability to experiment and innovate.

No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. Contrary to their popular characterization as intellectual conservatives, engineers are really among the avant-garde.

That decision falls to scientists, engineers, and managers—with at least the tacit approval of company officers and boards of directors. All complex technology is inseparably coupled to an equally complex team of people and systems of people who should interact with one another as smoothly and with as clear a purpose as a set of well-meshed gears.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Zappa warned you of the threat of mediocrity in music.

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.