Quotes About Innovation

You can make anything out of anything.

Third Doctor: A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

Nothing dates faster than people's fantasies about the future.

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

weird ideas spark innovation because each helps companies do at least one of three things: (1) increase variance in available knowledge, (2) see old things in new ways, and (3) break from the past. These are the three basic organizing principles for innovative work

A series of controlled experiments and field studies in organizations shows that when teams engage in conflict over ideas in an atmosphere of mutual respect, they develop better ideas and perform better .

If you want a creative organization, inaction is the worst kind of failure.

Einstein said, "A person who has never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Vu ja de means seeing old things that are inside and outside the company in new ways.

organizations that spread and sustain excellence are infused with a "relentless restlessness"—that often uncomfortable urge for constant innovation, driven by the nagging feeling that things are never quite good enough.

Be wary when people tell you that they don't produce a lot, but when they do, it will be "brilliant." Remember that innovation is largely a function of productivity.

Focus on "pulling the plug" on failed ideas more quickly, not on reducing your failure rate.

Great bosses avoid burdening their people. They invent, borrow, and implement ways to reduce the mental and emotional load they heap on followers.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. —Thomas Edison

all great technologies are blends of other technologies.

managers continue to use methods that force people to see old things in old ways, expecting new and profitable ideas somehow to magically appear.

Nolan Bushnell, the founder and former CEO of the Atari Corporation, remarks that "sometimes the best engineers come in bodies that can't talk

an idea is creative when it is new to people who use or evaluate it, and (at least some of them) believe it could be valuable to themselves or others.

Hire newcomers that other people in your company will dislike." David

If you hire people who prompt discomfort in yourself and others, take extra care to listen to their ideas and insist that others do so as well.

Organizations that scale well are filled with people who talk and act as if they are in the middle of a manageable mess.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different."23