Quotes About Innovation

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

When you think about how everything else works in the digital age and the way that money does, money really falls short.

My own work falls into a subset of AI that is about building artificial emotional intelligence, or Emotion AI for short.

I used to do my own make-up. I used to have this doll that had those big eyelashes on the top and bottom, and I think I copied her when I was doing my eyes, putting false eyelashes on the bottom as well as the top. So I came up with that look myself.

Creativity is not about the fame.

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

Try to say something familiar in a unique way so that it's sing-alongable, even if you don't speak English.

I love finding ways to make familiar characters into someone unique.

I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.

When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they're incredible at partnering with each other.

I have had the privilege to be a member of many high-performance teams at NASA, both on and off the planet.

I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.

I think new regulations create a reset for all teams.

Eight-man teams drilling expansion bolts in rocks? Sorry, that's not climbing - that's engineering.

To get players for MLS, we sometimes had to go to places where nobody else goes. The big teams have global scouting networks but we had to be creative.

I think I've achieved some good things; doing the first genome in history - my team on that was phenomenal and all the things they pulled together; writing the first genome with a synthetic cell; my teams at the Venter Institute, Human Longevity, and before that Celera.

When I meet with most entrepreneurial teams, I ask them a simple question: How do you know that you're making progress? Most of them really can't answer that question.

The era during which only governments could put hardware on the Moon is coming to an end. There are 26 private teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize - to be awarded for sending a robotic spacecraft to this nearby world that can roam at least 500 meters, and send back data such as a photo.

At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.

At Rackspace, I'm building a media house which will celebrate small teams who are having world-wide impacts through their building or use of new technology.

Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams or groups to commercialize disruptive innovations. When disruptive innovations have to fight with other innovations for resources, they tend to lose out.

If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.