Quotes About Innovation

Once an innovation reaches a certain level of popularity, its success is virtually assured. By the same token, great innovations can fail because the domino effect doesn't kick in.15

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.

We might make mistakes but we will make other things too.

I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.

Empathy is the engine that drives design.

Make money with your mind, not your time.

The title of the report is "Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development." Before we go there, some research is in order.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

based on what the wind does, we build

At his father's Avenue Z office, Donald was itching to break away from building basic housing for middle-class, outer-borough families. When Fred Trump did branch out beyond Brooklyn, it was to buy cheap plots from desperate sellers in California, Nevada, Ohio, and Virginia. Donald wanted something bigger.

We are so accustomed to thinking of European civilization as the vanguard of the world that we forget that for much of human history, the European peninsula was at the receiving end of the miracles of the East. Over the millennia, innovations such as Mesopotamian agriculture, the Phoenician alphabet, Greek philosophy, and Arab bookkeeping all flowed from east to west. Both Christianity and Islam followed the same route. So did wheat, olives, sugar, and spices.

At one point," remembers Peter Rummell, "Celebration was going to be modeled on a factory town, like Hershey, Pennsylvania, which is a tourist destination where people pay to watch other people make chocolate. Ultimately imately, Rummell rememberers, "No one could figure out what could be made or produced in our new town that would draw these tourists.

The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

If you challenge conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done. Bill James

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

He had been exposed to the new wine of unfamiliar concepts and the old wineskin of tradition and rigid religion was unable to hold it. I had been there many times myself. Soon he would have to make a choice— pour out the new wine or find new wineskins.

On 25 June a bulldozer, known as the Yellow Monster, arrived to help us improve the track systems as we advanced; it probably did the work in a day that 100 men with picks and shovels might do in a week. At all events, it saved us a great deal of hard work.

Hunt had thought of the name while watching his children playing with one of the hot novelties of the period, the Wham-O company's high-bouncing Super Ball.

The New Right is of the fringe (and I say that as an anarchist), and the fringe is where both innovation and insanity lay.

Whether we know it or not, our lives are acts of imagination and the world is continually re-imagined through us.

Every mistake is a new style.