Quotes About Innovation

The great unexplored frontier is evaluation under conditions of complexity. Developmental evaluation explores that frontier.

one of the fun things about being a scientist is being able to make up new words)

I feel sorry for hookers these days—how do they stand out anymore?

Autobiography is hopelessly inventive.

The greatness of Intel is not that it is smarter than other companies (though it may well be) or that it is too clever and competent to make a false move (we've just seen a stunning example of the very opposite) but that it has consistently done better than any company, perhaps ever, at recovering from its mistakes.

The only approved American models were James and Twain, neither of whom could be imitated.

Today, we are able to do what your parents would would have dismissed as impossible and your grandparents as nothing short of magical.

Entonces sabrás que Albert Einstein aseguraba que la imaginación era más importante que el conocimiento, puesto que este último está limitado a lo que sabemos mientras que la imaginación abarca un mundo aún por descubrir y comprender.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

They were the younger guys playing at the end of the Swing Era, just playing their version of it. It became known as bebop, which sounds esoteric, but it was really just an offshoot of swing music." That offshoot, however, almost instantly changed jazz music's identity, advancing it from a danceable idiom played with the audience's casual listening pleasure in mind to a more personal and cerebral modern music.

Later, there were several great white players, as there are today. But when it first matured, it was a black instrument. The saxophone was outside the system and the Negro was on the fringes of society. Together they found their voice." Evoking

the trouble with renewables isn't fundamentally technical—it's natural.

an important, paradoxical truth: it is only by embracing the artificial that we can save what's natural.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Computer scientists calculate that there have been thirty-two doublings since World War II, and that as early as 2030 we may encounter the singularity—the point at which total computational power will rise to levels that are so far beyond anything we can imagine that they will appear nearly infinite and thus, relatively speaking, be indistinguishable from omniscience.

By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, astronomy replaced astrology, chemistry succeeded alchemy, probability theory displaced luck and fortune, insurance attenuated anxiety, banks replaced mattresses as the repository of people's savings, city planning reduced the risks from fires, social hygiene and the germ theory dislodged disease, and the vagaries of life became considerably less vague.

We want to be open-minded enough to accept radical new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out.

What a magnificent race of creatures, he thought, that could build an airport on top of a sailing ship. But what a wretched one that mainly used it to bomb one another back into the Stone Age…

The world changes. We adapt to it. That's the whole way we stay ahead, survive – and prevail.

Being a good, innovative librarian means taking a humanistic stance toward policy, decision-making, and experimentation. It means focusing on the heart.

That is how entrepreneurs work. Where others see a barrier, they imagine a logical solution and then turn it into reality.

The first transatlantic cable was not laid until 1956, and it could transmit only 36 calls at any one time. As late as 1966, only 138 simultaneous calls could take place between Europe and all of North America,

Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy.

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.