Quotes About Innovation

In spite of what many teachers of 'creative thinking' say, the best way to be creative is not to try to think without limits but to very carefully define what those limits should be.

The mistakes pointed out the problems with the project, pushing the maker to improve upon them.

I take all the best parts of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and combine them into a whole new service called Ã¢â'¬Â¦ YouTwit-face.

If man could apply half the ingenuity he's exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there's no limit to what he might yet accomplish

Life is about family and technology.

What Got You Here Won't Get You There.

you're not trying to solve the problem that's on the table right now (a kid who's violating curfew, a coworker who's missing deadlines, etc.). Instead, you're shifting people to a place where they can solve the problem—and the next one that comes up, and the one after that.

That's it, just two quick questions: "What's something that would be impossible?" and, "What would make it possible?" What's so powerful about those two questions? They move a person from a defensive, closed position or a selfish, excuse-making stance into an open, thinking attitude. And they make the person picture your vision as a reality and cooperate in thinking strategically about reaching that reality.

But in business there is no end to the game. There are no insurmountable leads. The competition always has time to catch up.

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.

You do have to try, learn, and improve. You do have to put yourself out there and risk failure. But in this new world, you don't have to go bankrupt if you fail because you can fail small. You can innovate as a hobby. Imagine that: a nation of innovation hobbyists working to make their lives more meaningful and the world a better place. Welcome to the maker revolution.

We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to eliminate hunger. Yet we have found the will to develop missiles capable of flying over the polar cap and landing within a few feet of their target. This is not innovation. It is a profound distortion of humanity's purpose on earth.

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

You're better than that. Start giving your customer solutions rather than just information.

It's far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology.

Even after Dr. Barry Marshall, a gastroenterologist from Australia, proved he could cure ulcers with antibiotics to kill the bacteria (called Helicobacter pylori), his theory was still dismissed for more than a decade. It was only after he drank a beaker full of bacteria, caused an ulcer in himself, and cured it with antibiotics that his theory was accepted. Dr. Marshall won the Nobel Prize for his discovery.

Between the health care that we have now and the health care that we could have lies not just a gap, but a chasm. —Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine, 2001 We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. —Albert Einstein

To develope [sic] the powers of the Creator is our proper employment—and to imitate Creativeness by combination our most exalted and self-satisfying Delight.

Getting to space is not rocket science, it's political science!

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule." Clarence Birdseye

The technology never reverses itself. It creates new technology to confront new sets of problems.

Convention center hotels play host to "Prison Expo" conventions. Since the mid-1990s these conventions feature upwards of 600 booths, touting "the latest in prison innovation and technology to more than 5,000 conventioneers.