Quotes About Innovation

Apparently Jeff Bezos thought this business model was a great idea, so much so that he acquired an e-card company of his own. My job was to take what I could from that acquired site and build a new Amazon e-card site. And I was expected to have it all up and running in a few months. It was like being told to build an airplane, but with no blueprints, and also you're a cocker spaniel.

Design is a funny word. Some people think Design means how it looks. But, of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. —Steve Jobs

Design means how something works, not how it looks – the design should evolve from the function. —James Dyson

Too many businesses compete on price when they should be competing on value.

There are essentially two ways to grow your firm; to add new practice areas in your city, or to move and expand into new cities.

Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress...

You want to see how devoted we are to comfort? Walk into the average American home and hide the remote control, and watch what happens. Life without the remote control is an unbearable burden for the average American family. Then someone invented a TV with a beeper so that when you clap your hands, the remote control will beep until you find it.

If you cannot create, then buy a company that can. In particular, the large corporations buy small, personnally owned companies that have made breakthroughs in particular areas. They are buying creativity, though the immediate rush this produces doesn't last long. Once integrated into an administrative atmosphere, the creativity is sucked out of them. (IV - From Managers and Speculators to Growth)

Close one Pandora's Box and we open another, the President said. That's science for you, Mr. President.

Gotta love high-tech rednecks, Weaver said

When a collection of brilliant minds, attitudes, and talents come together... expect a masterpiece

Great art, whether expressing itself in words, colours, or stones, does not say the same thing over and over again; that the merit of architectural, as of every other art, consists in its saying new and different things; that to repeat itself is no more a characteristic of genius in marble than it is of genius in print; and that we may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

One man's thoughts can never be expressed by another: and the difference between the spirit of touch of the man. who is inventing, and the man who is obeying directions, is often all the difference between a great and common work of art.

Women had been on the verge of taking over the world—the Western world, anyway. Then some sexist pig in Silicon Valley invented the cell phone and women took a sidetrack on which all four billion of them would soon be happily talking to each other twenty-four hours a day, getting nothing else done, and Men Would Be Back.

computer chips.

It's the end of civilization as we know it. And it's going to be great for business.

This would require an e-book reader that is as easy to read as a traditional book, durable to abuse as much as we abuse paperbacks and cheap enough that when you lose it, you can buy another one

Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.

The diagnostics and modifications screens. Ugly and utilitarian, just like they have been since the very beginnings of visual user interface. They were beautiful.

Capitalism had made it to space and was doing reasonably well.

ex machina. I

would be an unholy agglomeration of parts, a monstrous creature that would have sent its spiritual godmother Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley far around the bend.

Sarah Monette, Chris Roberson, Brandon Sanderson, K. J. Bishop and Steph Swainston

He was originally from Guatemala but immigrated to the United States when he was a kid. He was the one to solve the buffer overflow—