Quotes About Innovation

They think know-nothings are good because they're not invested in the status quo. They think they bring fresh perspectives

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Owen tried to convince fellow capitalists that investing in people could produce a greater return than investments in machinery. But the business world dismissed him as a wild radical whose ideas would harm the people he wanted to help (O'Toole, 1995). Owen was at least 100 years ahead of his time.

Mandel, who died in 1995, had mastered the art of packaging his interiority, an innovation that would become the driving engine behind Web culture.

Creativity is fragile; if you don't nurture it, it can die, leaving you recycling old ideas and pretending they're fresh. It's a sure road to mediocrity.

When it comes to revolutionizing science, what matters is quality of thought, not quantity of true believers.

Good ideas are not taken seriously enough when they come from people of low status in the academic world; conversely, the ideas of high-status people are often taken too seriously.

Human beings can build airplanes, but they can't build a human being like you.

Todo diseño invo-lucra objetivos en conflicto, y por lo tanto, compromiso, y los me-jores diseños siempre serán aquellos con el mejor compromiso».

Looking back, I have to laugh. You know why Martin Bligh was strenuous? Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!

DON'T TOUCH A CLICHÈ WITH A TEN-FOOT POLE

discovering that hunter-gatherers had constructed Göbekli Tepe was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a basement with an X-Acto knife.

One end of the spectrum of fantastical thinking is labeled "crackpot," and the other "visionary.

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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die

Thomas Edison is often said to have advised, "To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

true randomness sometimes produces repetition, but when users heard the same song or songs by the same artist played back-to-back, they believed the shuffling wasn't random. And so the company made the feature "less random to make it feel more random," said Apple founder Steve Jobs.12 One

the elasticity of our thinking allows us to move beyond the existing world of our senses and invent new concepts.

in 1958, the average life span of companies in the S&P 500 was sixty-one years. Today it is about twenty.

In many respects, the West has not recovered from the Middle Ages.

Visionaries are those in the field of art and science who recognize novel patterns. They see beauty before the rest of us do.

The intense effort to develop artificial intelligence has increased our understanding of neural networks because at its core, AI is but an attempt to improve artificially what the brain already does effortlessly.

The occurrence of monotheism, codified law, and the alphabet all at the same moment in history cannot have been coincidental…. The abstractness of all three innovations were mutually reinforcing. —Robert Logan

You can't up-up-and-away in creativity and innovation without spending down-on-the-ground time in the muck and the mire.