Quotes About Innovation

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.

Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love the detail of it, the problem-solving of it, and I love working with actors.

Depending on the kind of code you write, depending on the kind of ideas you have, you can be creative in problem-solving and you can really make things work in a very gratifying way.

Since we don't know with any certainty what specific aptitudes today's students will need tomorrow, we need to ensure they have the critical thinking and problem-solving abilities that extend beyond any one technology or program.

Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.

I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.

I got addicted to the hands-on problem-solving through the process of making or designing something. Architecture school was really influential and amazing.

Architects like to work in a problematic environment.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.

Blockchain should be used to address opportunities and problems that lack easier answers.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

The military likes to figure out how to do something, put it in a manual or an operating procedure, and perfect doing it, and have everyone do it the same way. I don't like that.

I'm an anti-standard operating procedure guy.

This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle.

Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

My learning process has always been very idea-oriented. I never sat down with a book being like, 'OK, now I'm going to learn about transistors.' Instead I had an idea that I really liked and learned as I was trying to figure out how to build it.