Quotes About Innovation

History wasn't made without taking risks, that much he knew. So maybe sometimes you had to take risks to write it, too?

I guess you're familiar with Moore's Law? This states that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit—which basically means memory size and processing speed—will double every eighteen months, and costs will halve. Moore's Law has held with amazing consistency since 1965, and it still holds.

You may object that this was corny, but don't forget that (a) corn sells by the ton, (b) that I only had two weeks to rework an entire manuscript, and (c) that it sure a hell was a lot better than starting with the derivation of the name Lang.

THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL HAVE NO PAPER THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL CARRY NO INVENTORY THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL BE ENTIRELY DIGITAL THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE HAS ARRIVED

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

Pragmatism is nothing without imagination; and imagination is wasted without pragmatism

The best management is sometimes less management or no management at all. William Coyne, who led 3M's Research and Development efforts for over a decade, believed a big part of his job was to leave his people alone and protect them from other curious executives. As he put it: 'After you plant a seed in the ground, you don't dig it up every week to see how it is doing.

It means constantly seeking and implementing better ways of thinking and acting across old and new corners of the system.

Support a few crackpots, heretics, and dreamers, especially if they are wildly optimistic about their ideas.

the business of statesmanship is to invent new terms for institutions which under their old names have become odious to the public.

artists of the modern era have carried origami to unprecedented heights of realism and complexity.

rare is the schoolchild who has never folded a hat, boat, plane or the ubiquitous fortune-teller or "cootie-catcher.

In the future, we will surely have even bigger such bubbles, each built up around its new and different new era story, and we will have to invent new names for them.

The basic technological unemployment narrative is the same, but the examples have a wider scope. First, giant locomotives and electrical power equipment economized on human muscle power. After the mutation, the narrative focused on computers replacing human thinking. This mutation refreshed the narrative.

Traditions should not be maintained just because they were traditions. Strength was not strength if it had no purpose or direction.

Some men would call it brash, foolhardy, suicidal. The world was rarely changed by men who were unwilling to try being at least one of the three.

And not the sort of thing you have imagination enough to think up.

Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package.

The cards are stacked, against any original mind, and perhaps properly so.

Spy a striking new tack to take with a problem? Don't worry about elaborate scientific controls for now: Just get hysterical and do it

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

En lugar de buscar un empleo, busca problemas que necesiten ser resueltos.

Schools were designed to produce good employees instead of employers