Quotes About Innovation

Stronger! stronger! grow they all, Who for Coca-Cola call. Brighter! brighter! thinkers think, When they Coca-Cola drink. —Coca-Cola advertising slogan, 1896

More attractive metaphors create more popular buildings.

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.

Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated.

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Song-forms are just like jello molds, ya know? I like goofing around. [ Pour some flavor in there? ] Yeah; and wait for it to sit.

By one estimate, more books were printed in the first fifty years after Gutenberg's discovery than had been copied by all the scribes in Europe in the previous thousand years.

Watson recorded that he "could unmistakably hear the tones of [Bell's] voice and almost catch a word now and then.

The visionary behind this idea was a Polish immigrant named Paul Baran.

The technological success of the telegraph failed to drive revenue simply because Americans could not imagine how they could benefit from the breakthrough.

Mr. Watson—Come here" joined "What hath God wrought" in immortality

Later that evening, Alexander Graham Bell wrote to his father, "I feel that I have at last found the solution of a great problem and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid on to houses just like water and gas is, and friends will converse with each other without leaving home.

That is more than 300 million times faster than the telegraph and 30 billion times faster than horseback.

While earlier generations of wireless technology evolved from voice to data (just as the wired network had), 5G was the first technology to be built from the ground up for the purpose of microcomputers talking to microcomputers.

Bezos's Amazon e-reader broke 550 years of precedent by separating the act of publishing from putting ink on paper.

Do you want to be extraordinary? Do extraordinary things.

Forget about plan "B" I'm now on plan "Z"

New and Improved actually means that the Old Stuff actually Sucked!

if organizations want leaders to drive change, they would be well advised to hire moderate misfits rather than candidates who are a perfect fit for the current culture. A carbon copy of the rest of the team could perpetuate rather than disrupt the status quo. At the same time, hiring people who are radically different will rarely generate the desired change. More likely, these leaders would end up disrupting only themselves.

Be not the first by whom the new is tried nor the last to set the old aside.

consider the seemingly impossible possibilities. Stop

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.