Quotes About Innovation

Do great work. Make a better product. Give better service.

Don't copy. Create.

Every successful company must be on guard against the threat of complacency. You have to create a sense of urgency every day in every thing you do.

These tend to be in the areas of basic values like integrity, creating mutually beneficial relationships with customers and employees, and providing honest value. What I am saying is don't make assumptions about what will work tomorrow based on what worked yesterday, especially in the area of processes, procedures, strategies, and operations.

Prosperity can be very dangerous for any company. It can lead you to believe that you've cracked the code, or "figured this business out," or that you "know how this business works." No. You know how it used to work. To stop and relax for more than a brief moment is one of the most dangerous things you can do in a marketplace that changes constantly. This doesn't mean that you should run scared or operate your business in a panic mode.

Changing just for the sake of changing can be a more dangerous trap than being stuck in complacency. The graveyard of failed businesses is full of companies that were willing to try anything, whether it made sense or not, just so they could feel that they were "riding the waves of change.

Just because something has always been done a certain way does not necessarily mean it's the best way, or the correct way, or the healthiest way for your horse, or your relationship with your horse, or your life.

I didn't want to write SF about people who Sold The Moon or were the big Earth-shattering Newtons-Pasteurs-Einsteins-Hawkings of the future. I wasn't interested in the people who shaped the future. I was more interested in people who were shaped by the future. People who were products of their environment.

We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion.

Think of it this way: the input remains the same, so the output has to remain the same. How, then, can you ever create anything new?

If we cannot think beyond how we emotionally feel, then we are living according to what the environment dictates to our body. Rather than truly thinking, innovating, and creating, we merely fire the synaptic memories in other areas of our brain from our genetic or personal past; we instigate the same repetitive chemical reactions that have us living in survival mode.

Cuántas veces en la historia personas tachadas de herejes e insensatas que sufrieron el menosprecio de los demás acabaron convirtiéndose en genios, santos o maestros? ¿Te atreves a ser original?

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.

One man wrote War and Peace. Thirty-five screenwriters wrote The Flintstones.

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.

So many of man's inventions - the syringe, the sword, the pen, the gun - were metaphorical cocks, but the internal combustion engine had to have been dreamt up by a man who had looked upon the human heart.

It sounded like delusion until you remembered that people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

Americans curse without any imagination at all." Harper

I had discovered some time ago that nothing frees the mind like dropping the pants. Try it if you doubt me. American productivity would, I believe, nearly double if everyone were free to work pantsless.

Ideas are as real as rocks.

Harper had had enough of the porcupine and enough of the drainage pipe. She scooped the stick right under his rear end and shoved him along ahead of her. She felt this had the makings of a new Olympic sport: porcupine curling. The

All it took to turn a CD into a knife or a tape gun into a .45 was a little imagination, a little panic, and a lot of prejudice.