Quotes About Innovation

Apple bought Siri from its creator, SRI (Stanford Research Institute) International, which had developed it with government funding from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) between 2003 and 2008.

unemployed people described "have been superannuated less by age than by newly invented machines.

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry it is the exact opposite!

For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.

Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.

To the worldly, servant-leaders may seem naive; and they may not adapt readily to prevailing institutional structures. The

Typically, today, somebody in top management meets with a consultant, reads a book, gets excited about a new idea, and begins to talk about it.

Orthodoxy is a dam that is built by persons who think they have reached the ultimate in human thought, and that there will never be anything as good. They are finding that it is easier to become interested in the dam than in the great current that it is holding back. These

Most of the Streltsy were simple Russians, living by the old ways, revering both tsar and patriarch, hating innovation and opposing reforms.

innovation is discouraged in most bureaucracies

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.

Our experience with the consulting firm made it clear that energy is closely tied to how ideas get put into action.

The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.

When Albert Einstein was in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, an eager young newspaper reporter approached him one day, notebook in hand. "Well, Professor Einstein," he asked, "what's new in science?" Einstein looked at him with his deep, soft eyes and replied, "Oh? Have you already written about all the old science?

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline.

In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.

Entrepreneurs typically start on a path they do not see as risky at all, then something happens that upsets their expectations and, being too far into their projects to turn back, they are forced to improvise. Those who get over this hump, or mountain, of unexpected trouble are the surviving entrepreneurial successes.

It's a mistake to possess comfortable things," he said now. "Soft couches, big beds, large bath tubs, the like. Because if nothing is comfortable you don't settle in; you keep moving. And if you keep moving, you have a better chance of staying ahead of the people who are trying to catch up with you.

The future has taken root in the present.