Quotes About Innovation

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking. —THOMAS EDISON

Nothing is really new in this high-tech, globally wired world, except how frequently it is.

Alvin Toffler

Many years ago Alfred North Whitehead cogently observed, "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

If you're waiting to have a good idea before you have any ideas, you won't have many.

What's a good idea?" is a good question, but only when you're about 80 percent of the way through your thinking! Starting there would probably blow anyone's creative mental fuses.

If you're waiting to have a good idea before you have any ideas, you won't have many. What's

How much available data could be relevant to doing those projects "better"? The answer is: an infinite amount, easily accessible, or at least potentially so, through the Internet. On

And if it's just you, attempting to come up with a good idea before defining your purpose, creating a vision, and collecting lots of initial bad ideas is likely to give you a case of creative constipation. The

Organizations are now almost universally in morph mode, with ever-changing goals, products, partners, customers, markets, technologies, and owners. These all, by necessity, shake up structures, forms, roles, and accountabilities.

You increase your productivity and creativity exponentially when you think about the right things at the right time and have the tools to capture your value-added thinking.

At any point in time, the first thing to consider is, what could you possibly do, where you are, with the tools you have?

The best way to get a good idea is to get lots of ideas. —Linus Pauling

Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line?

A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.

Businesses don't give a crap about creating jobs. They care about making money. With robots, you'll just need some tech guys to maintain and repair them.

Google makes everybody a genius.

since a pen or pencil could easily be turned

The Bureau was still behind the times on technology

Small observations can lead to large breakthroughs.

As accustomed as he was to the ever-expanding muscle of technology, even Jason Archer had to shake his head occasionally over what was really out there. Iris scanners were also used to closely monitor worker productivity. Jason grimaced. Truth be known, Orwell had actually underestimated.

the most important factor in America's economic future—in raising everyone's standard of living—is not land, or money, or computers; it's human talent.

older theories become more and more unclear when one tries to use them to obtain insight into new domains.

What is essential here is that the act of creative perception in the form of a metaphor is basically similar in all these fields, in that it involves an extremely perceptive state of intense passion and high energy that dissolves the excessively rigidly held assumptions in the tacit infrastructure of commonly accepted knowledge.