Quotes About Innovation

The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure.

Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe in impossible things and we've had to refuse to fear failure.

The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.

Innovation without insight is failure.

What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.

The ability to fail quietly without having that failure associated with your name/identity allows for more experimentation and limit pushing.

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention.

I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

Any damn fool can put on a deal, but it takes genius, faith and perseverance to create a brand.

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Any innovation in matters of faith is extremely pernicious and utterly damnable!

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.

All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.

Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'

Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.