Quotes About Innovation

A significant difference between Pacioli's book and Treviso Arithmetic is that Pacioli dealt with negative numbers. The concept of negative numbers was new in Europe, and Pacioli is believed to have provided the first printed explanation.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.

Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.

Media companies can be divided into two broad categories: the few who create waves, and the many who ride them - or drown.

The trouble with being inspired to perform the impossible was that the inspiration gave you no clues to the practical means.

Greg heard Frank Oppenheimer say: "It worked." Oppie said: "Yes, it worked." The two brothers shook hands. And the world is still here, Greg thought. But it has been forever changed.

The world was changing so fast it was hard to keep up. Grigori had never been inside

You know you're winning, in politics, when your opponent steals your ideas. - Bernie Leckwith

The Cathedral Builders by Jean Gimpel.

The Medieval Machine

Dirigió una última mirada atrás. Su puente dominaba el panorama. Había transformado radicalmente la aldea. La mayoría de la gente ya no se refería a ella por su antiguo nombre de Dreng's Ferry. Ahora la llamaban King's Bridge, el puente del rey.

You know you're winning in politics, when your opponents steal your ideas.

The invention of the pointed arch, he wrote, was a rare event in history, when the solution to a technical problem—how to build a taller church—was also sublimely beautiful.

It was the most romantic plane ever made.

I figured, There's no sense doing anything when everything's already been done

Technology is a Beautiful Thing.... When It Works...........

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

In the 21st century, culture is power.

Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.