Quotes About Innovation

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

The iPhone alone now generates more revenue than all of Microsoft.

forecast Steve Ballmer made in 2007, when he was CEO of Microsoft: "There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

Quit pretending you know things you don't and start running experiments.

Tu n'étais pas comme les autres car tu regardais toujours au-delà des choses… Tu voulais toujours voir ce qui n'existait pas.

Life should be lived on the edge. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.

Les limites existent seulement dans l'esprit de ceux qui ne savent pas rêver." (The limits exist only in the minds of those who can not dream)

Therefore my advice would encompass the following nine commandments: Do not get used to a sole body language. Do not establish a doctrine. Surprise yourself. Dream in a loud voice. Invent. Keep diligent, mysterious and secret. Have a just and generous heart. Compassion, yes; but no remorse. Acquire a thirst for excellence.

In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.

I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

using billion dollar satellites to find Tupperware in the woods,

greatest surprises I have encountered has been that the people who seem wisest about the necessity of placing limits on the newest technologies are, often, precisely the ones who helped develop those technologies, which have bulldozed over so many of the limits of old. The very people, in short, who have worked to speed up the world are the same ones most sensitive to the virtue of slowing down.

Nothing sets you (or at least me) free creatively," says the untamed film director and Monty Pythonite, Terry Gilliam, "like having a set of limitations to explore.

All has been done, each theme has been attack'd, And Authors' Heads are like a city sack'd!

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

The concept of barroom shoot-outs and duels in the sun have no part in our tradition either, possibly because we have had so few barrooms and so little sun. (It is awkward to reach efficiently for a six-gun while wearing a parka and two pairs of mittens.)

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.

We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that is what we need to do here. Together, we can upcycle everything. The world will be better for our positive visions and actions.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.

That's how you continue your passion and find inspiration; getting new ideas, getting new looks and new visions. Those are ways to evolve and stay passionate.