Quotes About Innovation

Genius is fostered by energy.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Nothing quite new is perfect.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Robots would save the elderly from the woes of the ageing flesh.

We're a rather dreary generation on the whole, aren't we? We don't create much beauty of our own, and our one idea seems to be to smash up everybody else's creations.

Margaret Frith

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along its shores.

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

The things we fear most in organisations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.

If someone asked me to sum up what is great about my country, I would probably tell them about Apollo 11, about the four hundred thousand people who worked to make the impossible come true within eight years, about how it changed me to see the space-scarred Columbia capsule in a museum as a child, about how we came in peace for all mankind.

If someone asked me to sum up what is great about my country, I would probably tell them about Apollo 11, about the four hundred thousand people who worked to make the impossible come true within eight years ...

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

If we make one criterion for defining the artist the impulse to make something new, or to do something in a new way - a kind of divine discontent with all that has gone before, however good - then we can find such artists at every level of human culture, even when performing acts of great simplicity.

Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

New ideas are created when they can be discussed freely, but if there is a CORRECT view then you cease to have new ideas