Quotes About Innovation

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That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships--although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies.

Science arose in the West—and only in the West—precisely because the Judeo-Christian conception of God encouraged and even demanded this pursuit.

The European Middle Ages collected innovations from all over the world, especially from China, and built them into a new unity which formed the basis of our modern civilization.

Thomas Edison not only failed his way to success, he insisted, "When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't." When

In software, you can't know what's going to work, so, as Chuck put it, "When you build any new product, there's no sure way to know if the dogs are going to eat the dog food.

So rapid was the Ottoman assimilation of cannon technology that by the 1440s they had evidently acquired the unique ability, widely commented on by eyewitnesses, to cast medium-size barrels on the battlefield in makeshift foundries. Murat transported gunmetal to the Hexamilion and cast many of his long guns on the spot. This allowed extraordinary flexibility during siege warfare:

The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.

Judgment hinders imagination.

By definition, inventing new ideas requires you to think about things that are not already in your mind.

It is not enough to choose a revolutionary theme to create a revolutionary work of art.

If you can define the problem differently than everybody else in the industry, you can generate alternatives that others aren't thinking about.

You can't make a renaissance person anymore, because the range of what you would need to do is just impossible. But you could actually assemble a renaissance team."7 The integrative thinkers rely on their "renaissance teams" to broaden salience, maintain sophisticated causality, and create a holistic architecture in their drive for creative resolution.

It's extremely difficult—and socially risky—to question an established model that many people believe and to start building a new model from scratch.

Fundamentally, the conventional thinker prefers to accept the world as it is. The integrative thinker welcomes the challenge of shaping the world for the better.

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Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

It seems that now is the time to take risks and strike.

The future is to be conquered, the present ridiculed, and the past outdone." Voltaire Almighty