Quotes About Innovation

Design thinking provides a set of creative methodologies for solving problems and generating ideas that is based on building up solutions, rather than starting with the answer.

Ironically, in attempting to minimize risk and reduce errors, GM's emphasis on regimented systems stymied innovation.

Thus, a key flaw with the top-down, central planning approach is how limited it is in allowing us to be limber and able to discover new ways of doing things.

No one can take their eye off their core business or responsibilities, but anyone can spend a portion of their time and energies using little bets to discover, test, and improve new ideas.

Target groups you care about that other people mostly don't, and take advantage of strategies other people are biased against using.

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.

Some discoveries would probably have been delayed, or perhaps not made at all; but many false leads would also not have been pursued, and it is possible that medicine would have developed in a very different and more efficacious direction, emphasizing healthy living rather than cure. In

ARTISTIC CREATION is a voyage into the unknown.

We may become the first species to spread beyond the limits of the Earth and colonize other planets.

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Our century has been dominated intellectually by a coming to terms with science.

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, William Shakespeare, and Michelangelo Buonarroti stand together at the peak of Western culture.

Winning is about moving into the unknown and creating something new.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. TULI KUPFERBERG

if you continue to do what you've always done, you will continue to have what you've always had.

Quantum theory had the strangest genesis," Ball says. "Its pioneers made it up as they went along. What else could they do?

Scientists, according to [Francis] Bacon, should not be like ants, busy doing mindless practical tasks, nor like spiders, weaving tenuous philosophical webs, but like bees, mining nature for her goodness and using it to make useful things.

Creer que el genio conlleva estar libre de error es malinterpretar la naturaleza de la creatividad y el entendimiento.

Cabe decir que los genios tienen más posibilidades de incurrir en el error que la media.

It was doubtful that their technology, and its intelligent use, would ever match their ability to create social stupidities.

Arnie Kott owned the only harpsichord on Mars. However, it was out of tune, and he could find no one to service it. No matter which way you cut it, there were no harpsichord tuners on Mars.

It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's the highest goal of man - the need to grow and advance . . . to find new things . . . to expand. To spread out, reach areas, experiences, comprehend and live in an evolving fashion. To push aside routine and repetition, to break out of mindless monotony and thrust forward. To keep moving on . . .

The Public School, he had long ago decided, was neurotic. It wanted a world in which nothing new came about, in which there were no surprises. And that was the world of the compulsive-obsessive neurotic; it was not a healthy world at all.