Quotes About Innovation

Whiz Co was a firm with an inside track to the future. The Future of Waste.

Today they are food stylists for NASA.

This is the last avant-garde. Bold new forms. The power to shock.

Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization—a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.

Who is going to invest in a company that shows you what's going on quarterly, compared to one that shows you what's going on all the time?

In fact, soon billions of smart things in the physical world will be sensing, responding, communicating, buying their own electricity and sharing important data, doing everything

Today Ethereum is the second-longest and fastest-growing public blockchain. The

Zero to One.

Every cultural industry is up for disruption, and the promise is that creators get fully compensated for the value they create.

Quisiéramos que las finanzas dejaran de ser una máquina de hacer dinero típica de la era industrial y se convirtieran en una plataforma de prosperidad.

en nube con una serie de aplicaciones que permiten a los usuarios almacenar información con seguridad, privacidad y a precios muy bajos. Ninguna autoridad central tiene acceso a la contraseña encriptada del usuario. El servicio elimina los altos costes de los servicios de almacenamiento centralizados; es rapidísimo y paga a los usuarios por alquilar el espacio de disco que les sobra. Es como un Airbnb de la memoria libre de nuestros ordenadores.

If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough—they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things. It is possible to avoid failure, to always be safe. But that is also the route to a dull, uninteresting life.

Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.

Some things can only be solved by massive cultural changes, which probably means they will never be solved.

With the passage of time, the psychology of people stays the same, but the tools and objects in the world change.

Skeuomorphic is the technical term for incorporating old, familiar ideas into new technologies, even though they no longer play a functional role. Skeuomorphic designs are often comfortable for traditionalists, and indeed the history of technology shows that new technologies and materials often slavishly imitate the old for no apparent reason except that is what people know how to do. Early

We are creative and imaginative, not mechanical and precise. Machines require precision and accuracy; people don't. And we are particularly bad at providing precise and accurate inputs. So

One way of overcoming the fear of the new is to make it look like the old. This practice is decried by design purists, but in fact, it has its benefits in easing the transition from the old to the new. It

If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough—they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things.

Design is concerned with how things work, how they are controlled, and the nature of the interaction between people and technology.

We must design our technologies for the way people actually behave, not the way we would like them to behave. Moreover, the automobile does

When people are anxious they tend to narrow their thought processes, concentration upon aspects directly relevant to a problem. This is a useful strategy in escaping from danger, but not in thinking of imaginative new approaches to a problem.

It is amazing how often people solve the problem before them without bothering to question it.

To understand products, it is not enough to understand design or technology: it is critical to understand business.