Quotes About Innovation

Surprising yourself is a big thing for me—to go somewhere that I don't even know I'm going.

The vast majority of the rich in this country did not inherit their wealth; they earned it. They are the country's achievers, producers, and job creators.

Muldoon referred to an invention that Menlo Parker was currently working on, designing a miniaturized portable radio-telephone which the Omega operatives could carry on their person at all times, and by which they could always get in touch with one another, and also tap into the public phone lines to contact the police, fire department, or ambulance. The invention was by no means yet perfected.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

"So you've been over into Russia?" said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, "I have been over into the future, and it works."

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

The German chocolate cake was easy. So was the vanilla buttercream. But the strawberry shortcake gave me fits. Turns out, the final fix came when I baked a fresh strawberry in the middle of a vanilla sour-cream batter instead of strawberry batter with chunks of strawberries.

Wishing you were here to see the trailblazers,

A camel is a racehorse designed by committee.

understanding and effectively countering the antagonists' methods through creative means

extensive use of case studies, including GE, eBay, TAL, Dell, Toyota, Southwest, UPS, Federal Express, and IBM to illustrate our themes and gain insight from what these innovators have recognized and created. By understanding the principles of this book, you will gain insight into the new marketplace reality and learn

Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever." Thomas Edison, 1889

The only fresh meat is the future.

When I asked for her best motivational tip, she shared a single sentence she uses with her employees. Whenever she assigns a project, she says, "Make it as awesome as you want.

As a species, the only way we're going to have a better world is by solving the harder problems.

Eventually, money will optimize itself and everything around it.

Fundamentally, a civilization's problems are rooted in energy development.

Natural intelligence will always be one step ahead of artificial intelligence on a random walk.

New walks. More threads. Better spots. Bigger spreads.

Printer drivers are the most important things in the history of the world.

The future is driven by twin engines: will power and brain power. One shows you possibility, while the other creates it.

The programming language of juking is random walks.

The UUe will cannibalize all other economic systems.