Quotes About Innovation

My songs are always four years ahead of me. They're like my teachers.

If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big.

America's experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It's about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

Engineering is about finding solutions with a commitment to ongoing refinement. That's what engineering training teaches you.

We live in a technology-driven world so I want to ensure our educational system teaches in a technology-driven way.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

I want to attract the best people into teaching.

I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a lot about different models for the teaching profession.

My imagination ran 24/7, and to me, every problem was a challenge to solve and new product to create. It wasn't until I started teaching that I realized that not everyone's head worked the same way.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

If you are teaching a kid about seasons, you can put it in a song. He will definitely take interest. I wish to put every physics formula into a song, and it will become very easy for the student to learn.

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it?

Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in.

'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about writing that didn't mention stuff like story structure, protagonists, and all those things that we know about only because they already exist in stories.

When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.

While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.

I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

Instead of being focused on teaching what we already know, we now have to be focused on creating new knowledge that is China-based, because it's absolutely clear that China is going to shift from a production economy to a knowledge economy.

I knew I had to find my own way of teaching.

Entrepreneurial education in grades K-12, if it exists at all, still focuses on teaching potential entrepreneurs small business entrepreneurship - the equivalent of 'how to run a lemonade stand.'

I was so proud of my team and myself for changing the rules of the fashion industry.