Quotes About Innovation

IBM actually followed the recommendations and built a workplace where people can work. (We predict this company will go far.)

Ability to change has to be an organic part of the organization. Change has to be going on all the time, everywhere. It needs to be everybody's business.

The opposite approach would be to encourage people to make some errors. You do this by asking your folks on occasion what dead-end roads they've been down

Quality, far beyond that required by the end user, is a means to higher productivity.

There is probably no job on earth for which an ability to believe six impossible things before breakfast is more of a requirement than software project management.

When companies can't invent, it's usually because their people are too damn busy.

You may be able to kick people to make them active, but not to make them creative, inventive, and thoughtful.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

he loved about people—trouble brought out their grit, their creativity.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle we just decided to go.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

And what they found was something no one had ever seen before." "What's that?" "Well, no one had ever seen it, so it didn't have a name.

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.

I used to think that to make something happen in a corporation or in the army, you had to be at the higher ranks, to be a general. But you just need to start a movement.

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.

Like a muscle, your creative abilities will grow and strengthen with practice.

At its core, creative confidence is about believing in your ability to create change in the world around you.

The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

So design your space for flexibility instead of inertia and the status quo.

Design thinking relies on the natural—and coachable—human ability to be intuitive, to recognize patterns, and to construct ideas that are emotionally meaningful as well as functional.

Noticing that something is broken is an essential prerequisite for coming up with a creative solution to fix