Quotes About Innovation

All the technology in the world is not going to help you if it's not intuitive and if the end user can't use it.

people working collaboratively with technology are far more effective than either people or technology alone.

Wallace Laboratories hired Salvador Dalí to help stoke Miltown fever, paying the great artist $35,000 to create an exhibit at an AMA convention that was meant to capture the magic of this new drug.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

We've all heard that millions of monkeys banging on millions of keyboards will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. –Victor Hugo T

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Natural selection is an inanimate process, devoid of consciousness, yet is a tireless refiner, an ingenious craftsman.

In 1979, for example, Microsoft gave Boeing Commercial Airplane Co. the right to buy any Microsoft product for $50 per copy, until the end of time. Today most Microsoft applications sell in the $300 to $500 range, ten years from now they may cost thousands each.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

The trick to developing a new computer or program, then, is not to hire a lot of smart people but to hire a few very smart people. This rule lies at the heart of most successful ventures in the personal computer industry.

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed.

Great physicists, great mathematicians, great chemists, and publishers knew that one was always feeling one's way in the dark.

Who was the first human being to look out a window?

A bastard may have no imagination and then do one imaginative thing when you least expect it," said Espinoza.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.

Let me remind you of something Einstein once said: "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?"

As time passes, what was once an unpredictable step sideways becomes a definitive step forward for art.

We were developing a principle with the music box that we tried to stick with for the rest of our toy career," Ruth explained. "If you develop a basic mechanism or a basic concept, you develop one or two or three items around that concept at the initial introduction, and then year after year you add new products around the initial concept.