Quotes About Innovation

An excessive emphasis on invention, rather than on adoption, is a major factor in the low success rate of innovation. The diagram of figure 1.1 compares invention and innovation as practices.

No technical skill is worth more than knowing how to select exciting research projects. Regrettably, this vital ability is almost never taught.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

Most of us have one BIG IDEA at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.

La mente, una vez expandida, nunca puede volver a sus dimensiones originales».

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed – but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every craft.