Quotes About Innovation

Form ever follows function.

Art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.

Isn't it too bad Walt Disney didn't live to see this?" "He did see it," Vance replied simply. "That's why it's here.

Creativity is merely the arrangement of existing forms into new relationships.

Why settle for the ordinary when the extraordinary is only a little dreaming and doing away?

believe one of the best models for creativity is found in the design and development of Disney theme parks, a practice better known as Imagineering.

and just as the first Imagineers adopted techniques and practices from animation and movie-making to develop the craft of Imagineering, we can borrow (and steal) principles, practices, and processes from Imagineering and apply them in other creative endeavors.

Blue Sky is the stage where you develop a vision to address that Need and identify what you're going to create. Put another way, the objective of the Blue Sky stage is to create a vision with enough detail to be able to explain, present, and sell it to others.

There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward–opening new doors and doing new things—because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting…we call it "Imagineering"—the blending of creative imagination and technical know-how.

Walt Disney defined Imagineering as the blending of creative imagination and technical know-how. I like

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

The artist is only a vehicle for already has been. Nothing can really be given a presence unless it already exists potentially.

The poet is a maker, not a retail trader.

They all believed that ideas are not "out there" waiting to be discovered, but are tools—like forks and knives and microchips—that people devise to cope with the world in which they find themselves.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

And yet, unlearn we must, for technology relentlessly transforms the playing field, changing not just the answers but the questions as well.

Form follows function.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game—it is the game.

management doesn't change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

envisioning System/360 was one thing. Making it a reality required the equivalent of a man-on-the-moon program. It cost nearly as much. Tom Watson's memoir noted that the investment required—$5 billion (that's 1960s dollars!)—was larger than what the Manhattan Project cost.

When I arrived at IBM, new mainframes were announced every four to five years. Today they are launched, on average, every eighteen months (with excellent quality, I might add). I can understand the joke that was going around IBM in the early 1990s: "Products aren't launched at IBM. They escape.

You can think of a lot of things to make out of nothing, if you have to.