Quotes About Innovation

Homo innove par ce qu il stocke.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

a successful collaboration pushes margins of both partners

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

I have depeloped a substance which allows me to command time at my discretion.

Vous allez encore mourir ! cette fois, vos sales inventions ne pourront rien pour vous. Et vous serez damné !

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems

Create. Don't Compete.

Blue oceans are right next to you in every industry.

Which of the factors that the industry takes for granted should be eliminated? Which factors should be reduced well below the industry's standard? Which factors should be raised well above the industry's standard? Which factors should be created that the industry has never offered?

Every company wants one, yet few companies have one: a compelling strategy.

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.

mieux vaut, pour la renommée d'un philosophe, inventer une erreur nouvelle que de redire une vérité qui a déjà été exprimée par d'autres.

At a time where so many scholars are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream?

The very essence of modernity is the fact that everything—and really everything—can be replaced by something else, which is absolutely monstrous

This is a place of true imagination.

You can get a taste of an idea inside you, and the next thing you know, it won't leave. Until you do something about it.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

I tapped a forefinger to my temple and raised my glass of single-vineyard Foxen Pinot. "Between here and here lies the Rubicon of the imagination.

If he does it right and is lucky, in nine or 10 months he scoops the tiny half-inch seedlings out of the bottle and plants them in community pots. A year later he transplants them to individual three-inch pots and in another two years to 4 1/2-inch pots, and crosses his fingers. Then, five or six or seven years since the day he put pollen to stigma, he sees an orchid no one ever saw before. It is different from any orchid that has ever bloomed, including those in the Garden of Eden.

There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.