Quotes About Innovation

An important factor regarding the adoption rate of an innovation is its compatibility with the values, beliefs, and past experiences of individuals in the social system.

The prejudice of [research] training is always a certain 'trained incapacity': The more we know about how to do something, the harder it is to learn how to do it differently

We conceptualize five main steps in the innovation-decision process: (1) knowledge, (2) persuasion, (3) decision, (4) implementation, and (5) confirmation.

Because of the pro-innovation bias, we know much more (1) about the diffusion of rapidly spreading innovations than about the diffusion of slowly diffusing innovations, (2) about adoption than about rejection, and (3) about continued use than about discontinuance

In his pursuit of economic modernization, Deng liked to say that he was groping for stones as he crossed the river.

He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

There's no 'Safety First' in Art.

I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition….

that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition…. Then

Just do everything we didn't do and you will be perfectly safe.

Reform won't catch up to the needs of civilization unless it's made to.

The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots.

Can't repeat the past? why of course you can!

Fine dives have been made from flimsier spring-boards

Whatever worth while comes to you, won't be through the channels you were searching last year.

Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...

The band did a salute to Stephen Foster and played 'Beautiful Dreamer' and we formed a bed. Then we played 'My Old Kentucky Home' while the majorettes slowly pranced like horses. We finished with 'I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair', we formed a comb. Miss Philpot is running out of ideas if you ask me.

They gave Saint Patrick his own day and what did he do but run out a bunch of snakes. Why, Thomas Edison lit up the world. If it hadn't been for him we'd all still be sitting here in the dark, with nothing but a candle

Ida had always been different. At school, when all the kids used to play church, and one would be the preacher, another the preacher's wife, a deacon, and the choir leader, and some would be the parishioners who had come to the church, Ida said she wanted to be God, because she was the only one who knew how to do it. Of

He had done it all, from barnstorming to crop dusting, and had even flown a Davis Waco with the Baby Ruth Flying Circus.

Good programming, like good books, asks a little more of the viewer. But no executive today will risk having the viewer bored for even a minute.