Quotes About Innovation

Too many engineers are wrapped up in what they call technology and the gadgets, the hardware, and they forget that the whole purpose of technology is to make peoples' lives better. People forget that, and I have to keep reminding them. We are trying to improve the human experience. That's what technology is all about.

parts of classic MVC don't really make sense for rich clients these days.

It's more than a little ironic that many of us preach safety first to our children, nieces, and nephews but in our roles as programmers scream for freedom, a hybrid of the Wild West gunslinger and teenage driver. Give us freedom, give us the resources, and watch us fly.

Architectural refactoring is hard, and we're still ignorant of its full costs, but it isn't impossible. Here the best

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals — the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

Indeed, in his view, being difficult – 'singular and reserved, or whatever you may be pleased to call it' – was actually a necessity for those who wanted to achieve remarkable things.

A plentiful supply of paper – just as much as the study of ancient sculpture or single-point perspective – was among the factors that led to what we call the Renaissance. It allowed artists to think and work in different ways, a transformation as significant as the Internet and computer technology have been in the early twenty-first century.

A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.

The great men of science are supreme artists.

Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary.

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

Some innovations just don't attract enough economic or social demand: just as supersonic flight and manned space flight stagnated after the 1970s, today (in 2002) the potentialities of broadband (G3) technology are being taken up rather slowly because few people want to surf the Internet or watch movies from their mobile phones.

And it's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science – it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.) Indeed

As LEGO found out more than a decade ago, the question "What are you most proud of?" can yield surprising and transformative answers.

ABD'de piyasaya sürülen her on üründen sekizinin kaderi ba?ar?s?zl??a mahkum.

Teniendo en cuenta que el equipo directivo no sabe qué hacer con el Big Data, todo el mundo está a la búsqueda del pos-Big Data, y la respuesta son los pequeños datos».

Japonya'da piyasaya ç?kan yeni ürünlerdeki ba?ar?s?zl?k oran? 9,7'yi buluyor.

Dünya çap?nda her y?l kabaca 21.000 yeni marka piyasaya ç?k?yor, ancak bunlar?n yüzde 90'? bir y?la kalmadan raflardan kayboluyor.

the Apple logo hangs from an unseen thread in many Apple Stores like a Bethlehem star?

The Italian-owned Benetton label, for example, manufactures its entire clothing line in white. Once the clothes are delivered to distribution centers, Benneton's analysts assess what color or length is in vogue, at which point workers dye and cut the company's shirts, jackets, pants and infant apparel to replicate the style and color preferences popular at the time.

Children have generative power. They create meaning as they busily connect with whatever is happening. But grown-ups often forget that ability. They tend to lose that playful, adventuresome, creative generativity by which they can ask themselves: What's worth doing today?

The deeper the change and the greater the amount of new learning required, the more resistance there will be and, thus, the greater the danger to those who lead.