Quotes About Innovation

Must I again demonstrate that while it is permissible to request the scientist to lead you back over his footprints, a similar request of the artist is nonsense, since he, like the lark or the eagle, has made none?

Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.

Your imagination is an extremely powerful tool.

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill - take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Imagination is the true magic carpet." Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) WRITER

Creation means that something new is created - which automatically replaces the old. You don't have to think about what you want to change; instead, think about what you want to create.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH You can start with nothing, and out of nothing and out of no way, a way will be made.

You know what the first sites on the internet were about? Tech and porn.

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'

Singularity University

If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules

Intuition, luck, mistakes, serendipity—there you have four vital business concepts that every manager should know.

Moving around limits tribal affiliations that are detrimental to democracy, communication, and innovation.

Now Semco employees are free to customize their workdays, to come in earlier or later than traditional schedules. The hours they work are determined by their self-interest, not by company dictates. They're the best judges of the amount of time and the proper place necessary to get their job done.

Companies hoping to recruit the best and the brightest must demonstrate that they trust their employees with the freedom to work anywhere. They must assume that they're buying talent and dedication, not what the Brazilians call "butt-on-chair time.

El punto es que el mundo no está cambiando, sino que ya cambió, y despreciar lo nuevo es la cosa más vieja de todas

if we limited ourselves to good ideas, nothing of any worth would ever be accomplished.

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

One resourceful mom took her son's fixation on the video game Minecraft and made real wood "Minecraft" blocks for her son and the neighborhood kids to play with. This provided a connection between building things in the virtual world and building structures in the real world.

Even if we wanted to remake higher education," assert professors and administrators alike, "we don't think there is anything that can replace what we already have." Of course, the fact that in the past everyone claimed "this time is different," does not rule out the possibility that this time really is different.

Disruption requires an irrational thought: "Why don't we stop what we are doing now, what we have done well, and what has been profitable to us and useful to our customers, and do this new, untested thing that has a good chance of failing?

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