Quotes About Innovation

Like creativity, collaboration is a habit—and one I encourage you to develop.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell. The

There in a nutshell is the essence of creativity: There are a number of possibilities, but only one solution looks inevitable.

What is your idea of mastery? Having the experience to know what you want to do, the vision to see how to do it, the courage to work with what you're given, and the skill to execute that first impulse—all so you can take bigger chances.

When I can't build a cathedral, I build a bridge to get there.

Elon Musk personally interviewed the first three thousand employees at SpaceX because he wanted to make sure the company was hiring the right people.4

We focus on a very specific kind of talent in this book—namely, talent with a creative spark—and that is where the bureaucratic approach is most deadly. In referring to the creative spark, we mean people who generate new ideas, start new institutions, develop new methods for executing on known products, lead intellectual or charitable movements, or inspire others by their very presence, leadership, and charisma, regardless of the context.

Daniel understands that the mystique and thrill of building a new company have to outweigh the inertia of the status quo and its easier defaults, and that he is in part responsible for articulating that vision of creating something new.

Consider one of the most renowned interview questions of all time: "What is it you believe to be true that other smart people you know think is crazy?

If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the Great Stagnation, it is this: Recent and current innovation is more geared to private goods than to public goods. That simple observation ties together the three major macroeconomic events of our time: growing income inequality, stagnant median income, and the financial crisis.

The fourth and final step is that the human isn't needed much at all because the program on its own is so strong.

Markets are not just about the steam engine, iron foundries, or today's silicon-chip factories. Markets also supported Shakespeare, Haydn, and the modern book superstore. The rise of oil painting, classical music, and print culture were all part of the same broad social and economic developments, namely the rise of capitalism, modern technology, rule of law, and consumer society.

The most striking results are for the job category of inventors. If you are looking for inventors, IQ is by far the most significant of all the measurable variables we have. Furthermore, at higher levels of measured IQ the probability of becoming an inventor rises all the more.

Karlheinz Stockhausen.

You don't do design. Design does you

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

You cannot progress beyond you current state, with the same thoughts and actions and that brought you there.

Chapman, M. (1988). Constructive evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

HAVE YOU MICROWAVED YOURSELF TODAY?

A half-baked idea is okay as long as it's in the oven.

If you don't create change, change will create you

Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better

Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the envelope.