Quotes About Innovation

Josef Albers devoted his life to extolling the merits of "minimal means for maximum effect.

If markets change then so must brands.

Today's innovators need to figure out how to build working relationships with customers who feel that they too have a stake in the business.

Allowing customers a creative role can then build both confidence and energy. It can help initiate the right innovation efforts and keep them on the right track.

Co-creation suggests the interaction of individuals within a framework to evolve, re-define or invent something that is new.

A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative enquiry, for free creation.'1 Noam Chomsky

Apple is well connected to its fan and professional user base and it does use research to generate insights into customer behaviour. Interestingly though, this seems not to be about asking people to suggest what they want, but rather to explore people's whole lives (not just what they do as consumers at the point of purchase) and from there to make the imaginative leap to innovation.

The French director Robert Bresson made the observation: "My job is not to find out what the public want and give it to them; my job is to make the public want what I want.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.

How long will it be before obstetricians transfer a dab of vaginal mucus into the mouth of the newborn to be on the safe side?

As I grow up, I want to keep having LB Scoots, and I would also like to start other companies

They are not focused on the quality… I want to help kids by having a wheel that lasts long and is affordable.

I bought an irregular electric blanket. It's solar-powered.

Some people, possibly aliens, don't favor a dark terminal background. - Hacking the Planet (with Notcurses)

I'd say, be careful what you wish for; certitude is seldom good for creativity.

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.

First, I always go for the key, then I go for the rhythm, then I go for the melody, then I go for the lyrics, OK? That's how I do it.