Quotes About Innovation

School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

India, with one of the largest education systems in the world, has always been a priority for Khan Academy.

Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.

The power in Washington, D.C., is centered on the status quo - outdated systems, models, and programs built for a previous century. With more silicon and less concrete, we can open up those models to return power and independence to every man, woman, and child.

The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.

Sometimes you have to destroy the past so that you'll learn how to live in the new world.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

We like our players to play for fun and to be happy rather than afraid. It's like that in any business. If you have employees who work through fear, you're not going to get any ingenuity out of them. You're not going to get any employees who will take a gamble or come up with ideas. All you'll have are robots that are going to do their jobs, have a low-key approach, stay out of trouble. They'll put in their hours and go home. But I'd rather have it the other way.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like 'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.

Change is not the enemy of what is sacred. Change is the champion of what is sacred.

you changed when the cost associated with not changing outweighed the price you had to pay to change. When it comes to our ministries, we tend to be slow to change because we underestimate what it will cost if we don't change. It is possible for us to embrace a style of ministry that becomes outdated simply because it is easier to maintain instead of change.

We know the old world is collapsing, but the contours of the new world are not yet entirely clear. Some of the call functions of the old models will survive. Many will not, at least not in their present form.

Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe in impossible things and we've had to refuse to fear failure.

The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You ' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life ' were you?'

Frustration is the seedbed of creativity,invention and ultimately progress.

The trouble is they don't write the lines I want to use any more.