Quotes About Innovation

in 2010, foreign students received more than 50 percent of all Ph.D.'s awarded in every subject in the United States. In the sciences, that figure is closer to 75 percent. Half of all Silicon Valley start-ups have one founder who is an immigrant or first-generation American. America's potential new burst of productivity, its edge in nanotechnology, biotechnology, its ability to invent the future—all rest on its immigration policies.

Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are far more important symbols than any politician today, and they occupy the space that iconic political figures did in earlier eras.

Other educational systems teach you to take tests; the American system teaches you to think.

Cities are an ideal way to organize human beings for modern life—allowing them to mingle, work, and play, all in the same place.

it seems that what's artificial has become natural, and what's natural is now strange. Or rather, it's not that what's artificial has become natural; it's simply that what's natural has changed.

Viver não é necessário,; o necessário é criar.

To dodge the rules and say useless things sums up the essentially modern attitude.

la ética es proactiva, es decir busca lo bueno y no sólo pretende evitar lo malo: a partir de principios morales, proyecta directrices futuras y transforma la convivencia y la colaboración dentro de la empresa, innovando hacia lo mejor y no solo prohibiendo lo evidentemente peor.

Progresar es tanto innovar como conservar lo conseguido.

It does a man no harm,' the Sergeant remarked pleasantly, 'to move around a bit and see things. It is a great thing for widening out the mind. A wide mind is a grand thing, it nearly always leads to farseeing inventions.

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

The straightforward manner is seldom equal to the complications of the good subject. There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of saying a thing becomes a part of what is said, every work of art is unique and requires fresh attention.

There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

I hope we go down in history for being something more than just another famous act that got ripped off.

They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.

It's so awesome to be a part of something that is successful not because there's a famous person in it or because it's a revival of something, but because it's so fresh and original.

I was a big fan of sci-fi.

I came from a different world from other designers because I already had such a strong fan base that was interested in fashion. You have to give the little divas something.

When I came up with KRS-One and Rakim, everybody had to step their lyrical game up to build a fan base.

I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.

What makes business exciting is that you don't need a fancy degree, and anyone can do it.

I mean, when I throw it through somebody else's legs, they're not ready for that. Sometimes you take a risk. But it's more fancy, and I like it.