Quotes About Innovation

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

You don't have to go out there and fit the mold of what a quarterback is supposed to be. Make your own mold and do the best at each role. If you can run with the best and throw with the best, you can be the best quarterback in your own version of the position.

Accept that the moment you buy your latest iPad, iPhone, tablet, app or game it will be promptly followed by a vastly improved and sleeker looking version.

The intelligence with which engineers design a product dramatically impacts how easy or difficult it will be for the typical consumer to use it effectively.

Seek products designed with intelligence, and recognize that having fewer switches, buttons, or dials does not necessarily mean that the product is less sophisticated or offers fewer benefits or features. Quite the opposite might be true!

The AI strategy is implausible.

History shows that the best solutions to scientific problems are simple and elegant.

Art was creating something new, not mimicking something already in existence. What

It's safe to say that South Korea now has a reputation for being a place where cool stuff comes from. And yet, just 70 years ago—after the end of the Korean War—Korea was one of the poorest nations in the world.

Organized crime needed to wake up to the twenty-first century.

Hm. How about jewelry? Do they make jewelry out of lava?" None of them had ever heard of that

the bible—that is, William Gibson's novel Neuromancer, which popularized the term "cyberpunk.

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George Bernard Shaw which Annabel quoted so often: "Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not.

Rockefeller had had his own private station built fifty feet below the Waldorf-Astoria to save him traveling the eight blocks to Grand Central

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology. That, in a nutshell, is how we have lurched into the early twenty-first century."9

Come Senators, Congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorways, Don't block up the halls…For the times they are a changin'.

The article...It's theme was that computers are the first technological invention in history that effect every aspect of human life, from psychological to entertainment to intelligence to material comfort to evil, and that, because of this, humans and machines will continue to grow closer together. (Article 'Life In The Blue Nowhere') From The Blue Nowhere.

Act Different, Think Different, Make a Difference "Care about something enough to do something about it." —Richard Branson, founder, Virgin Inc.

Great discoveries, whether of silk or gravity, are always windfalls. They happen to people loafing under trees.

But in 1922 it was still a new thing to be a machine.

My grandfather's short employ at the Ford Motor Company marked the only time any Stephanides has ever worked in the automotive industry. Instead of cars, we could become manufacturers of hamburger platters and Greek salads, industrialists of spanakopita and grilled cheese sandwiches, technocrats of rice pudding and banana cream pie. Our assembly line was the grill; our heavy machinery, the soda fountain.

Martinis in a can, Callie. We live in an age of wonders.

Historical fact: people stopped being human in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of assembly line.