Quotes About Innovation

Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

Everything begins with an idea.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.

My unlimited desire to create stuff surpasses the advancement in hardware power.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

America is number one in wind power.

Tony Wagner recently said, "There's no competitive advantage today in knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know." And,

the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write. The illiterate will be those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Consider

the longer we wait to start a conversation around doing school "differently," instead of simply "better," the more we're putting our kids at risk.

that the new opportunities for learning require us to articulate a fundamental revision of the value of school and the roles of teachers and classrooms. The

if you're waiting for the Twitter workshop, you're missing the point.

can. If it's just about tests to graduate, grades to get into college, and scores for international comparisons — which, in large part, it is right now — school is about to be disrupted big time. I

We can raise the teaching profession by sharing what works, by taking the best of what we do and hanging it on the virtual wall.

How can we begin to move schools to become places of more relevant, connected, creative learning? Even with a plan, it won't be easy.

Eric Hoffer sums up where our emphasis should be in schools right now: "In times of great change, learners will inherit the earth, while the learned will be beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists." Let

We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them." I

at least half of the time they spend on schoolwork must be on stuff that can't end up in the Friday Folder? That the reason they're doing their schoolwork isn't just for a grade or for it to be pinned up in the hallway? It should be because their work is something they create on their own, or with others, that has real value in the real world.

Will Richardson