Quotes About Innovation

More prized by his parents than good grades, Chris mentioned, was "Yankee ingenuity"—putting your smarts to work. "It's better to be tough than strong, better to be clever than intelligent," he said, repeating a family maxim.

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage— to move in the opposite direction.

The brain is like a massive LEGO set, where each of the individual pieces is quite simple (like a single LEGO piece), and all the power comes from the nearly infinite ways that these simple pieces can be recombined to do different things.

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Alfonso Cuaron

One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

With no serious downsides, a one-in-three potential benefit for end-stage cancer seems like it would spark further research, right? But who's going to pay for a study of something that can't be patented?

Nothing is sexier than the naked mind --nothing more seductive than the inventive imagination.

But despite their poverty and their lack of material resources, food, housing, and so forth, the poor do have an enormous wealth in their knowledges and powers of creation.

Embrace your eccentricity and creativity, live outside the norm, and wait for the world to catch up.

Not to have known about this! That here, That nowhere else in the wasteful, wilful, Death-wishing world, here Röntgen focused his ray And the eye first saw right through the skin, So that now without knives we see what is wrong Or is going to be wrong. We still need a ray To coax the delicate wings from the commonplace husk And detect why the horde we are destroys itself.

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.

Benjamin Franklin cautioned, "When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Da Vinci gave birth to a tradition that resulted in the modern discipline of "brainstorming." Prior to Da Vinci the concept of "creative thinking" as an intellectual discipline didn't exist.

We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever too.

Leaders who promote a questioning culture in their organizations move people from dependence to independence.

Creativity requires asking questions for which an answer is not already known. The truth is that innovation is rarely the product of pure inspiration, that "Eureka!" moment when some genius comes up with a wholly new idea. Rather, innovation happens when people see things differently. It starts with a questioning culture that helps people gain new perspective and see things differently. Innovation is generated by great questions in an environment that encourages questions.

Questions needed to be asked: What could happen if I did this? Is there any other way to think about this? What possibilities exist that I haven't thought of yet?