Quotes About Innovation

Rather than viewing and treating students who want to do something new as troublemakers who need to be fixed, we should recognize that they will be the engines of improvements in our standard of living. Point of fact, they always have been. To

If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

Those who have an excessive faith in their ideas are not well fitted to make discoveries.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

The true worth of a researcher lies in pursuing what he did not seek in his experiment as well as what he sought.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.

Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

Is it better to have bronze than copper and tin separately? Is this the marker of some historic advance?

I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.

Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.

Disruptive technologies typically enable new markets to emerge.

disruptive technology should be framed as a marketing challenge, not a technological one.

People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.

Culture is a way of working together toward common goals that have been followed so frequently and so successfully that people don't even think about trying to do things another way. If a culture has formed, people will autonomously do what they need to do to be successful.

First, disruptive products are simpler and cheaper; they generally promise lower margins, not greater profits. Second, disruptive technologies typically are first commercialized in emerging or insignificant markets. And third, leading firms' most profitable customers generally don't want, and indeed initially can't use, products based on disruptive technologies.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.

philosophical speculation can provide a stimulus for scientific breakthroughs.

The quipu is significant because it dispels the notion that mathematics flourishes only after a civilization has developed writing; however, societies can reach advanced states without ever having developed written records.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.