Quotes About Innovation

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat sich das Deutsche allzu widerstandslos als eine Art Dorftrottel unter den Sprachen präsentiert, der nicht in der Lage ist, für aktuelle Gegenstände aus seinem angestammten Wortschatz neue Begriffe zu bilden, und sich statt dessen auf eine Weise, die ein amerikanischer Kommentator als 'vorauseilende Unterwürfigkeit' bezeichnete, mit schlaffer, alterfleckiger Hand aus dem weltweit dampfenden englischen Breitopf bedient.

Never take long-range plans seriously. Use them for general guidance as long as they seem to be taking you where you want to go, but whatever you do, don't get stuck with them. Throw them in the trash heap as soon as something better comes along.

Never be afraid to zigzag. Avoid wailing yourself into a category: "I'm a secretary...I'm in the computer business...I'm a Detroiter." You never know which direction your lucky breaks may come from. When they drift into reach, grab them.

German test pilot Ernst Canter noted in his logbook that while in 1910 he flew at a height of eighty feet, two years later he was ascending to almost 5,000.

Adaptability is the quality which makes for progress,

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents . . . Its opponents gradually die out and the growing generation is familiar with the idea from the beginning.

The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

Its entry on the scene was not generally peaceful. A flood of mistrust, sometimes of hatred, above all of moral indignation, regularly opposed itself to the first innovator.

Actually, without the opportunity to make something go viral, social media would be nothing more than the good old Web 1.0.

Many things will disappear from each of the three main communications industries so that a new industry can be born. I don`t know what it will be called. It could be named social relations.

One of the mightiest features of this revolution that I personally feel every single day is that back in the old days, we used to change over years. Today, we change within a matter of hours.

Our PR business today has increasingly less in common with the business we used to do just ten years ago, let alone a hundred years ago. Pretty soon, it will look nothing like its former self.

Today, we are right there with the social media and hold it in our hands. In my opinion, such change of ownership always means revolution, regardless of its direction.

In a time of destruction, create something.

it's the duty of artists to volunteer to do particle counting. Don't leave creation up to the accountants.

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

Ideas are changed, not by will, but by other ideas

Henry J. Kaiser, the industrialist considered the father of American shipbuilding, attributed much of his success in business to the constructive, positive use of Creative Imagination with these words: "You can imagine your future.