Quotes About Innovation

Now, 2.6 million years after we started making tools, the last 0.016 per cent of our history as produced the most change, an exponential curve turning vertical. It's why I keep saying 'a recent idea' to anything less than a couple of centuries old. That change is young, its paint is still wet. And it's still external, due to mechanisation and its effects, it hasn't really changed humans except to make the affluent fat—and by affluent I mean anyone who shits in good drinking water.

in a world where McDonald's now sells salads with low-fat dressing, anything is possible.

The great minds of the century. So absolutely convinced they're on the road to somewhere.

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

The future ain't what it used to be.

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

Once you lose the discipline of functionality as a design guidepost, the imagination runs amok.

Sometimes good ideas spring from having a sense of where you want to go, of having a vision of the next level of products.

The best-performing firms make a narrow range of products very well. The best firms' products also use up to 50 percent fewer parts than those made by their less successful rivals. Fewer parts means a faster, simpler (and usually cheaper) manufacturing process. Fewer parts means less to go wrong; quality comes built in. And although the best companies need fewer workers to look after quality control, they also have fewer defects and generate less waste.

The competition always stayed close on our heels, but we managed to keep innovating and improving our products.

When there is no crisis, the wise leader or CEO will invent one. Not by crying wolf but by challenging the employees with change.

Other people's words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people's words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you're going.

We were the first generation to have, in our own homes, the means to re- and forward-wind reality: even very small children could press their fingers against those clunky buttons and see what-has-been become what-is or what-will-be.

I thought of that William Gibson quote: "The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed yet.

Then again, the more time I spend with the tail end of Generation Facebook (in the shape of my students) the more convinced I become that some of the software currently shaping their generation is unworthy of them. They are more interesting than it is. They deserve better.

It is a paradox of human dynamics, of how the progress of new ideas often rests on the survival of old ways.

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.

After all the imagination is a beautiful thing.

Many a man thinks he is making something when he's only changing things around.

Nobody can beat those songs on 'Abbey Road.'

Abbey Road' was a fantastic record.

I don't think any of us are above the ability to change football from what it is.

I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.

My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all.