Quotes About Innovation

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.

Mereka yang disebut buta huruf (illiterate) di abad ke-21 bukanlah orang-orang yang tidak bisa membaca dan menulis, namun mereka yang tidak bisa belajar (learn), menanggalkan pelajaran sebelumnya (un-learn), dan belajar kembali (re-learn).

If just a tiny fraction of the sums spent on scientific and technological research and innovation were devoted to labs for designing and testing new organizational and institutional structures, we might have a much broader range of options to head off the looming implosion.

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time.

I cinesi hanno dovuto imparare a mangiare l'immangiabile, e di qui la raffinatezza ineguagliata della loro arte culinaria. Esiste una civiltà più brillante e ingegnosa? I cinesi hanno inventato tutto, pensato tutto, compreso tutto, osato tutto. Studiare la Cina è studiare l'intelligenza.

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

The HMI (human-machine interface) function inside a Ferrari is probably the weakest link in the chain of technical know-how that's embodied in the car.

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

It would surprise you how many government and business leaders with dyslexia. Some people view it as a weakness, and maybe it is. What dyslexia forces you to do, you don't go A, B, C, D, E... to Z. I can go A, B... Z with speed.

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

I think when you are playing at the international level, there is so much television exposure that people are looking at your weaknesses and strengths, and you need to fox them at times. You have got to do something different.

Silicon Valley tends to be very myopic - to be focused on one or two things - which has some strengths as well as weaknesses.

Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.

So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.

Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.