Quotes About Innovation

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." —Oliver Wendell Holmes

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art." —Leonardo Da Vinci

Bernie Marcus was fired from a job as manager of the Handy Dan Improvement Center, then went on to start Home Depot.

If you're not prepared to be wrong you'll never come up with something original." —Sir Ken Robinson4

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

We are a nation not only of dreamers, but also of fixers. We have looked at our land and people, and said, time and time again, "This is not good enough; we can be better.

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? . . . We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

But there should be no dispute that if American schools don't improve, America will lose its world leadership.

There had actually been a form of a smallpox vaccine since the eighteenth century; what was required was the ability to dream big, to work with others, and to see the destiny of the United States as improving the lives of those beyond our borders. This is the America of which I am exceptionally proud.

Innovate as a last resort.

Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different," said Dieter Rams.[

How did people raise kids before plastic came along? "Everything for Baby", said the sign over the aisle we were in. It should have said, "Everything for Baby Is Made from Molded Plastic in Ugly Primary Colors.

That's your job. To make something out of nothing. To pull together all the disparate threads: recruiting (with no money), fundraising (with no reputation), and delivering joy (with no product). You must fabricate the chicken and the egg. Simultaneously.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

A painting is never finished—it simply stops in interesting places.

So in a world where everyone is competing with their answers, how do you differentiate yourself from everyone else? With a question.

NoSQL databases emerged from unmet needs.

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