Quotes About Innovation

If you find that you are short of funds in the field, remember that any paper can be mind augmented to perform in the place of real money.

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex.

The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view.

Half the ideas in this book are probably wrong.

simplicity piled upon simplicity creates complexity.

I was impressed by the scene in Apollo 13 where the astronauts request confirmation of their calculations and several people at Mission Control dive for their slide rules. For several months after that, my standard response to statements like "We must implement multi-processor object-oriented Java-based client-server technologies immediately!" was "You know, FORTRAN and slide rules put men on the moon and got them back safely multiple times." Tended to shut them up, at least for a moment.

Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.

Gross Domestic Product—the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value.

I have a lot of problems with fifteen-minute jazz-funk jams as well. I don't care about instrumental prowess. I don't care about quick-thinking improvisational skill. At all. I'm a songwriter and I'm familiar with Cage and I couldn't really care about what notes people can think of quickly. It doesn't interest me and I'm astounded that it interests other people still. Improvisation is what you do in the process of making something better.

So I was sitting behind the console looking at all these bands and thinking, "Most of the lyrics these guys are singing are pretty dreadful. I know I can do better than that." But I didn't want to be the guy singing, so I came up with this idea: maybe what I'll do is find a band and write the material, and they'll produce the material and I'll promote the band out there doing my songs.

Connecting products to the Web will be the 21st century electrification.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.

Creativity—that is, inventing your way out of a problem—is definitely the better stance.

simply by launching three years later than Musical.ly, Douyin already enjoyed more favorable conditions for success

Weishi 1.0 entered the market too early, and Weishi 2.0 joined too late, both missing the window of opportunity

Emerson was right," he told the 1992 Republican National Convention. "We are the country of tomorrow.

Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment.

He looked about the workroom, his eyes falling upon my integrator. "What manner of beast is that?" he said. "An unmannerly kind," I said. He extended a hand toward its head. "Does it bite?" "I don't know, but in a moment we may find out.

Everytime we use an invention or read a book or study a science or listen to music, we're enjoying someone else's idea— someone who may have lived thousands of years ago, and thousands of miles away from here.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. —ALBERT EINSTEIN I

putting in the necessary thinking work and refusing to accept the unattractive trade-offs, we can unleash our ability to build new and better models and create value for the world.

The power of framestorming lies in its ability to engage our SLOW thinking in a manner that feels like FAST thinking. At the same time, it turns problems into puzzles. When we view something as a problem, we naturally engage in Leaping to solutions. When something is a puzzle, though, we naturally slow down a bit: we learn at an early age when doing puzzles that we need to get the corners and edges down first. Getting the puzzle frame right is half the battle!

it doesn't necessarily take genius to spend resources . . . it does, though, to work within the resource constraints you're given.