Quotes About Innovation

Two men, on opposite sides of the world, had made the same great discovery at the same time.

re: the US agriculture industry: " This puts us in the odd position of consuming fossil fuels --geologically one of the rarest and most useful resources ever discovered-- to provide a substitute for dirt --the cheapest and most widely available agricultural input imaginable.

People tend to assume that organic farming and sustainability go hand in hand. But that's not necessarily the case - and it hasn't been for most of history. While going organic has some big advantages, even today most organic farmers still rely on the plow - the chief culprit in the this story. Why? Because it provides cheap, reliable weed suppression." David Montgomery - Growing a Revolution

wildly speculative.

Even today, LEGO continues to embrace one of founder Ole Kirk Christiansen's core values: to never let war seem like child's play.

Unburdened by the legacy costs and organizational inertia of more mature competitors, these new technologies quickly replaced established technologies and destroyed the incumbents' core markets.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ANTHONY JAY

The wrong answers are stopping the right ones from emerging.

Microsoft has a division that studies the way people work, to develop efficiency-improving software. (According to Microsoft's research up to 2007, if you're looking for a technological solution to being more efficient, getting a bigger computer screen is one of the few clear winners.)

testing out models, and then refining everything further, I developed a set of ideas that was transforming people's ability

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

Techno-systems Inc. occupies the top thee floors of a building so modern it looks like it must have been finished this morning. Yet compared to the interior of their offices, the rest of the building looks like a prewar colonial. Techno clearly wants to convey the impression that they are on the cutting edge, and for all I know, they may be. I wouldn't recognize the cutting edge if I sliced my finger on it.

Experts think that China will lead the world in the coming century? No chance. Just look at a pair of chopsticks and a fork, and you tell me who is more advanced.

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

The white powder of gold stuff?" Cam asked. "Yes. I was in the lab all night working with it.

The invention of the mechanical clock was one of a number of major advances that turned Europe from a weak, peripheral, highly vulnerable outpost of Mediterranean civilization into a hegemonic aggressor.

In America, air conditioning made possible the economic prosperity of the New South. Without it, cities like Atlanta, Houston, and New Orleans would still be sleepy-time towns.

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvable problems.

Leadership without perspective and point of view isn't leadership—and of course it must be your own perspective, your own point of view. You cannot borrow a point of view any more than you can borrow someone's eyes. It must be authentic, and if it is, it will be original, because you are an original.

The alphabet was an invention below stairs.

The most convincing works tend to be those in which the thinking is inseparable from the doing.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

Play the game by their rules (professionals), or play your own game, with your own set of rules, that follow common sense and have a much better chance of winning. It is your choice!