Quotes About Innovation

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.

I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper.

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

Ideas can never be traced to any one source. They are tossed back and forth between people until the decision makers step in and choose what they think is a success formula.

As we step out of the way new things are born.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time." No one has lived your life before. It is an adventure worth taking.

All technology, for example, is magic to a primitive.

War may be the most efficient stimulus of innovation and technological advance,

Magic is doing something the other guy can't do. We haven't learned how to do it yet, so it's magic. When we learn how and understand it, it's science.

I know nothing about technology.

It's common to maintain that trying a repetitive tactic in the face of ongoing failure defines insanity, but sometimes it is all we have.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

Children who are encouraged to play with the same object in a number of different ways develop the kind of flexible thinking that can consider a problem from a number of different perspectives.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

If there is one thing you must understand about the future, it is that not only is the world changing; the rate of change is increasing at an exponential pace.

The world of tomorrow will not be created out of thin air either. It will come from the convergence of a wide variety of accelerating technologies.

strategic planning is less useful, what replaces it? Strategic experimentation.

They accept that failure is an integral component of moving forward and, instead, create an environment where "unsafe" thinking and failure are encouraged, recognized, and rewarded.

Don't underestimate technology.