Quotes About Innovation

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

Human beings stopped living in a state of nature as soon as they evolved into human beings. We've always tinkered and tampered.

You never knew when condoms might come in handy . . . you could blow them up like balloons and tie messages to them, or fill them with water, or roll them on to your fingers and use them as fingerstalls. He didn't really foresee any possibility of their being put to the purpose for which they were intended.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination.

Bad sleepers! This is a new insult, and I intend to take out a patent for it, being the first to have discovered that it is an excommunication in itself.

Viteza cu care se înnoieÈ™te tehnologia ne oblig? s? ne reorganiz?m continuu È™i într-un ritm imposibil deprinderilor mentale.

Fiecare nou? tehnologie impune dobândirea unui nou sistem de reflexe, care ne cere noi eforturi, È™i asta la r?stimpuri din ce în ce mai scurte.

I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imitator. I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

There is no such thing as intellectual property.

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take things to.

Change nothing so that everything will be different

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to.

Things are only impossible until they are not.

Mike Kelleher from Obama's Senate office was the person who stepped up to tackle the mess… He built the staff, drew up a ten-page strategic plan for the mail-room, wrote algorithms for a mail coding system, set up a casework decision tree, assembled a library of policy-response letters, and developed quality-control manuals.

it takes real courage to go where you have not gone before.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

One IT executive in an investment banking company claimed that 80 percent of his company's programming code was dedicated to linking disparate systems, as opposed to creating new capabilities.

Big, old companies are simply not designed for digital.

They also remind us of the importance of the imagination.

Just because you have a thought, doesn't make you a thought leader!

Yefgenii said, "The Americans spent millions of dollars designing a pen that would work in space. What did we do?" Gevorkian's head was down, his eyes were down. "What did we do?" Gevorkian lifted his head "We used pencils." "We used pencils.