Quotes About Innovation

I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

Stout was a leader—quiet, unselfish, modest, yet very strong, very thoughtful and remarkably innovative. Whether speaking or writing, he was economical with words, precise, vivid. One believed what he said; one wanted to do what he proposed." Neither

How influential was Paul Sachs? Because he was short, about five foot two, he hung paintings low on the wall. When American museums rose to prominence after the war, many of the directors hung their paintings lower than their counterparts in Europe. Sachs's students had simply accepted it as the norm, and the other museums followed their lead.

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.

The Innovator's Prescription,

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks.

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks." —Albert Einstein,

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks." —Albert Einstein, in an interview with Alfred Werner for Liberal Judaism (1949)

Men went about killing each other in the most ingenious ways they could imagine, and on a scale never before seen, but at the same time, they insisted on making up rules of engagement to preserve a facade of civilization and morality.

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks." —Albert Einstein, in an interview with Alfred Werner for Liberal Judaism

Low key change helps the human mind circumnavigate the fear that blocks success and creativity.

Kaizen and innovation are the two major strategies people use to create change. Where innovation demands shocking and radical reform, all kaizen asks is that you take small, comfortable steps toward improvement.

Kaizen has two definitions: using very small steps to improve a habit, a process, or product using very small moments to inspire new products and inventions

kaizen: using small steps to accomplish large goals. Kaizen

If a society does not wish to change, it cannot be reformed through the educational system.

Creativity isn't learning the right answers but asking the strongest questions.

When forced to work within a strict framework the imagination is taxed to its utmost—and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom the work is likely to sprawl. —T. S. ELIOT

A working imagination is research.

Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative. Write only what you believe.

Creativity is choice-making.