Quotes About Innovation

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.

The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

What's important to a fashion designer? It's much more than learning how to make clothes. In fact, that merely makes you a dressmaker. It doesn't make you into a fashion designer.

Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.

I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

Schools kill time and creativity. Find ways to workaround these limitations

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.