Quotes About Innovation

One of the values in walking to work is mental meandering. Or if driving, not to have the car radio on. Now I don't think of myself as necessarily especially creative, but this creativity has to be a profoundly wasteful process. And that mental meandering, mind wandering and so on, is an essential process.

Someone who is motivated solely by the desire to become rich and famous might struggle hard to get ahead but will rarely have enough inducement to work beyond what is necessary, to venture beyond what is already known.

Up is not an easy direction. It defies gravity, both cultural and magnetic.

Now we can travel with more books stored in our telephones than the ancient Egyptians kept in their vast library at Alexandria.

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Flight and guidance systems are theoretically foolproof these days, but fools are surprisingly ingenious.

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

Instead of tangling with what has already been created, turn your attention away and create anew.

Every good author has a trick, a great and mighty trick.

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

NIH syndrome is characterized by a decision to discard all of what the other developer accomplished with the intent of demonstrating a superior solution. Such an act of sheer egotism demonstrates little interest in preserving the best of another's work and using it as a springboard to newer heights.

They learned that small programs, like small cars, handled better, were more adaptable, and were easier to maintain than large programs.

Everything new sounds ridiculous until someone makes it happen.

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

The most important aspect of being in an innovative environment is not being afraid to fail.

Avant d'attaquer chaque nouvelle journée de marche, j'applique une vieille recette esquimaude qui consiste à me moucher dans mes doigts et à étaler le résultat sur mon visage. Qu'on se rassure : il ne s'agit que d'un liquide transparent, qui gèle et forme un masque antigelures plus efficace que toutes les crèmes – ce qui m'évite d'en transporter une, puisque j'ai le nez qui coule en permanence.

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

Always be moving forward. Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. The moment you stop improving your organization, it starts to die. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way

The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products

Why not let employees pull features out of production?

The slogan goes, "Move fast and break things." But what if society is broken?

The new sysadmin won't power down a machine, replace a failing disk drive, reboot, and restore from backup; he'll write software to detect a misbehaving EC2 instance automatically, destroy the bad instance, spin up a new one, and configure it, all without interrupting service. With