Quotes About Innovation

Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City that's hard enough!

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.

Not even the Swedes would put camembert and Tandoori sauce in a burger.

The welfare state is the most important innovation of any country in the postwar period. Before it, Denmark was split between 25 percent with the highest income, 25 percent at the bottom: now we have 4 percent at the top and 4 percent at the bottom.

Roxy Music became, as Bryan Ferry would observe in 1975, 'above all … a state of mind'.

Chinese technology, much of it stolen from the United States, was saving his life. How ironic, Michael thought to himself.

It is difficult to think outside the box because the thinking IS the box.

We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and system that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?

But from our perspective, products that are not designed particularly for human and ecological health are unintelligent and inelegant - what we call crude products.

The only bad ideas are the ones never tried," Puck

It's because we know that what the popular kids have to offer the world is so tiny and unimportant compared to what the nerds will do. The dorks, dweebs, goobers, and spazzes that you picked on are the ones who will grow up to discover the vaccines, write the great novels, push the boundaries of science and technology, and invent things that make people healthier and happier.

It's because we know that what the popular kids have to offer the world is so tiny and unimportant compared to what the nerds will do. The dorks, dweebs, goobers, and spazzes that you picked on are the ones who will grow up to discover the vaccines, write the great novels, push the boundaries of science and technology, and invent things that make people healthier and happier. Nerds

we know that population growth does not just magically spawn productivity. Building factories and stocking them full of people does not mystically produce either raw materials or good ideas.

The aim of theory is not to be boringly right but brilliantly wrong.

we can't let "best" be the enemy of "better.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

Life will find a way.

This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.

When developing and designing products that invite people to use them, just do it right from the start and put your heart into it. It's harder and it takes longer, but everyone wins in the end.

Building "ambidextrous" organizations that can do both of these well is a challenge. See Michael L. Tushman and Charles O'Reilly III, Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal, rev. ed. (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002).

What was the world's first computer? An Apple. Eve gave one to Adam.