Quotes About Innovation

Asked where his inspiration came from, he said fiercely: 'It doesn't come, Your Majesty. You have to go out and fetch it.

You are not here to duplicate and replicate. You are here to initiate.

Outrageous ideas often prove themselves to be the most practical.

To err is human; to really screw up, you need a computer

When today's executives regard programming the same as manufacturing, they imagine that reducing the cost of programming is similarly simple and effective. Unfortunately, those rules don't apply anymore.

What's more, the only available economic upside comes from making your product or service more desirable by improving its quality, and you can't do that by reducing the money you spend designing or programming

It's cheaper to put an entire microprocessor in your car key, microwave, or cell phone than it is to put in discrete chips and electronic components. Thus, a new technical economy drives the design of the product.

One of my colleagues in the cellular-telephone business was complaining about how the engineers had made cell phones hard to use by packing in so many rarely used features. She said that cell phones were wet dogs. When I inquired about her metaphor, she explained, You have to really love a wet dog a lot to want to carry it around.

The key to solving the problem is interaction design before programming.

Programmers become so familiar with code reuse that they often copy existing techniques even when they aren't actually copying code.

Design Is a Big Word

Building better worlds

Remember that the prime consideration of science is the protection and betterment of human life. I would never contravene that.

Alan Dean Foster

Rey scarcely glanced in the other vessel's direction. "That one's garbage! We need something that'll move, not just get off the ground—if we're lucky!

At Shimer we paid no attention to disciplinary boundaries; we blithely followed problems wherever they led. For better or for worse, I've never been able to shake this approach.

thirty-one of the first forty U.S. Post Office pilots were killed in the first six years).

How did we ever get to believe that faithfulness involved simply retaining past forms and thinking? With the Creator God as our Father, how did we ever become the socially conservative stiflers of innovation that we are so notoriously perceived to be?

I would argue, however, that in most and perhaps all forms of creative activity, an unencumbered, unregimented, inward-looking mind is required at certain points—a mind that has unplugged from the wired world.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

It's not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn't be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.

Labour at your work until people cannot imagine what you have designed existing any other way.

Wherever did these jumped-up monkeys get all their ideas from?

An intractable problem can only be resolved by stepping beyond conventional solutions