Quotes About Innovation

to invent is not for fam it is to help

As a boss, he would never overlook the unexpected when it happened; he would always do the unexpected as a response.

Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people... have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear generation.

the next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape

Transform the medium by which we develop, preserve, and communicate knowledge, and we transform knowledge.

After just three days, the system so mastered the game that it was able to beat the prior version of AlphaGo a hundred games out of a hundred.

We don't use these technologies because they are huge, connected, and complex. We use them because they work.

Yet about an AlphaGo move that left some commenters literally speechless, one go master, Fan Hui, said, "It's not a human move. I've never seen a human play this move." Then, softly, "So beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful.

a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems.

In building a work life, people who follow rules, written or unwritten, too closely and in an unimaginative way are often suffocated by those same rules and die by them, quite often unnoticed and very often unmourned.

The point, as I emphasize in the book, is not for players to become professionals, but rather to have innovative and creative ways of thinking about real problems as part of their intellectual toolkit.

Simply put: Epistemic games recreate in game form the things that people do in the real world to learn to think in innovative and creative ways about problems that matter.

God made the world, but the Dutch made Holland.

Johan Cruyff was the first player who understood that he was an artist, and the first who was able and willing to collectivise the art of sports.

You have to talk through the bratwurst from now on.

After a moment I realized it was simply Fred Durst and the group Limp Bizkit—Shitload's favorite band. They're the ones who invented the musical technique of feeding a list of generic rap phrases to a goat, then reading its turds into a microphone over heavy metal guitar.

He tried to imagine Dave walking around the streets of Tokyo. It was like picturing RoboCop in Middle Earth—

furnaces for dyers and brewers, which when known will be used without

Market share determines who is right and who is wrong. Mind share asks what is possible. This

One thing that distinguishes a boss from a leader is the ability to suspend belief and disbelief so that innovations and new processes will have a chance to emerge.

we must learn how to think collaboratively and innovatively.

GREAT MINDS DON'T THINK ALIKE … BUT THEY CAN LEARN TO THINK TOGETHER!

They are much more interested in producing information than consuming it.

Imagination is everything. It is the key to coming attractions.—Albert Einstein