Quotes About Innovation

food production was indirectly a prerequisite for the development of guns, germs, and steel.

Different peoples acquired food production at different times in prehistory.

Benjamin Jones at Northwestern University and Benjamin Olken of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

On this voyage, you will witness the marvels that this city has brought the world. It

Nikola Tesla predicted in 1926 that "when wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain

His car, he envisioned, would be almost completely recyclable, the death of one car giving birth to part of another in an endless cycle, a concept known as "cradle-to-grave sustainability.

It was anti-Nazi Google.

Plus, if you're a copycat, you can never keep up. You're always in a passive position. You never lead; you always follow. You give birth to something that's already behind the times—just a knockoff, an inferior version of the original. That's no way to live.

Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.

When everything constantly needs approval, you create a culture of nonthinkers.

El cambio es tanto un arte como una ciencia

Disruptive innovation is good. Disruption for the sake of disruption is not. Culture

Lean Change Management moves the slider for managing change from using plan-driven aproaches to feedback-driven aproaches

The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

Fanfiction isn't copying - it's a celebration . One long party, from the first capital letter to the last full stop!

The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.

Unless the hole is MEANT to be square,' I said with a sudden erudition that surprised me, 'in which case, all the round pegs are the ones that are wrong, and if the ROUND hole is one that is not meant to be square, then the square ones will, no, hang on--' 'Shame,' said the historian, 'and you were doing so well.

What's with the iMagic name change?' I said without preamble. 'Industrial Magic was a bit of a mouthful,' he explained. 'Besides, putting an iin front of anything makes it more hip and current.

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

Les presento al nuevo expósito, Tiger Prawns. Tiger te presento a las hermanas Karamázov. Deirdre y Deirdre. -¿Por qué se llaman igual? -Tenían un padre con muy poca imaginación.

There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity...

You intend to go . . . supersonic?' 'Trust us,' said Owen with a smile, 'it's faintly possible that we know what we're doing.

For God's sake, Mother," he said in an exasperated tone, "is there nothing dumb, daft or dangerous that you haven't tried at some point?

How about this,' I said. 'We modify our plans with regard to ongoing facts as they become known to us, then remodify them as the situation unfolds. 'You mean make it all up as we go along?' asked Perkins. 'Right.