Quotes About Innovation

Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.

Conflict is good in a negotiation process... it's the clash of two ideas, which then, all being well, produces a third idea.

Strangely enough, when the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me' went to number 1, which was built around my 'Are 'Friends' Electric' song, I had another song called 'Rip' go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.

Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

It is not possible to go forward while looking back.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

Together, we have the power to inspire, connect, and deliver on new opportunities and rich experiences that can open doors to innovation and progress while growing global economies and increasing well-being.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.