Quotes About Innovation

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. —ATTRIBUTED TO WAYNE GRETZKY

It may be possible in the not-too-distant future to use CRISPR to create whole new species.

Albert Einstein once said, "a person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

The leader's checklist for General Electric, for instance, according to those highly familiar with the company, includes teaching others how to lead their divisions, making tough—often wrenching—personnel decisions around performance, and continually innovating. A checklist for Google, by contrast, would place greater emphasis on the individual pursuit of creative sparks, keeping teams small, and guiding others in an even-keeled manner.

Science is about proving things wrong, it's not about proving things right. What you're trying to do is break your strategy.

Great investors conceptualize problems differently than other investors. These investors don't succeed by accessing better information; they succeed by using the information differently than others." Michael J. Mauboussin,

NBA players made roughly the same percentage of shots from 23 feet as they did from 24. But because the three-point line ran between them, the values of those two shots were radically different. Shot attempts from 23 feet had an average value of 0.76 points, while 24-footers were worth 1.09. This, the Warriors concluded, was an opportunity. By moving back a few inches before shooting, a basketball player could improve his rate of return by 43 percent.41

Powerful Leaders are intentional about not repeating history by always being open to the unprecedented; what's in your future?

life's business in a fundamentally different way—using a molecule other than DNA or RNA as genetic material, for example, or a different set of amino acids to build proteins.

if the chief drivers are the desire to put a human imprint on another world and our innate needs to see over the next hill and stick it to everybody in high school who thought we'd never amount to anything, then maybe we should put lots of cash into nuclear fusion research.

spaceships will soon be zooming back and forth from Earth to Mars11 in huge waves, each one loaded up with about 100 people and all their Furbies and fidget spinners and whatever else Red Planet settlers are into.

Come here and look out this window. You see that contraption down there?" Frank pointed at an automobile sputtering down the street. "I think people are going to buy quite a few of these new buggies and they need gasoline to make 'em go. It may be the thing of the future. There might only be a few gas wagons now, but someday there will be millions of the things. Oil is only twenty-eight cents a barrel right now. But what will it be in ten years?

Chaos was Steve's strategy," said Walsh.

This was his fundamental innovation in governing: regular, uncontrolled bursts of anger and spleen.

you don't really have to know all that much yourself; you just do it differently than it was done before.

On March 27, the Office of American Innovation was created and Kushner was put in charge. Its stated mission was to reduce federal bureaucracy—that is, to reduce it by creating more of it, a committee to end committees.

increasingly short periods of time—first 1,200 years, then less than 600 years, then less than 125 years, then 50 years.

It was amazing how fast things were accomplished in a society run by commercial concerns and not much else.

I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

I've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether they'll be screened on phones, on computers - on everything.

Lo que primero llamaba la atención era la ausencia total de muebles, lo cual era posible gracias a la utilización sistemática de pequeñas diferencias de nivel a la altura del suelo. De este modo, las zonas destinadas a dormitorios eran excavaciones rectangulares de cuarenta centímetros de profundidad: uno bajaba a la caba en vez de subirte a ella. Las bañeras eran igualmente grandes pilas redondas cuyo reborde estaba situado a ras de suelo.