Quotes About Invention

La innovación se produce por fases. En el caso del transistor, primero fue la invención, liderada por Shockley, Bardeen y Brattain; después la producción, encabezada por ingenieros como Teal, y por último, e igualmente importante, fueron los emprendedores quienes encontraron la forma de crear nuevos mercados. Pat Haggerty, el intrépido jefe de Teal, constituía un llamativo caso práctico de este tercer paso en el proceso de la innovación.

Leibniz had little engineering skill and did not surround himself with those who did. So, like many great theorists who lacked practical collaborators, he was unable to produce reliably working versions of his device.

Kilby displayed his awshucks humility. "When I hear that kind of thing," he responded, "it reminds me of what the beaver told the rabbit as they stood at the base of Hoover Dam: 'No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine.

Walter Isaacson

most of the innovations of the digital age were done collaboratively.

But we have far fewer tales of collaborative creativity, which is actually more important in understanding how today's technology revolution was fashioned.

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In fact, neither explanation does Jobs and Apple justice. As the case of the forgotten Iowa inventor John Atanasoff shows, conception is just the first step. What really matters is execution. Jobs and his team took Xerox's ideas, improved them, implemented them, and marketed them.

The most important technology for the region's growth was, of course, the semiconductor. William Shockley, who had been one

launched the Web in 1991, Tim Berners-Lee

there's a deep current of humanity in our innovation.

playing juvenile pranks. In twelfth grade he built an electronic metronome—one of those tick-tick-tick devices that keep time in music class—and realized it sounded like a bomb. So he took the labels off some big batteries, taped them together, and put it in a school locker; he rigged

The Los Altos house with the garage where Apple was born

If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

great innovations are usually the result of ideas that flow from a large

Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!

Search the phrase "the man who invented" on Amazon and you get 1,860 book results. But we have far fewer tales of collaborative creativity, which is actually more important in understanding how today's technology revolution was fashioned.

a cette incroyable capacité à inventer des gadgets dont on n'a pas besoin et sans lesquels, brusquement, on ne peut plus vivre.

Grace Hopper develops first computer compiler.

Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!' " People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on

the biggest way to deliver an effect to the world is not by writing a paper but by taking technology you believe in and making something of it.

One aspect of innovation is inventing new devices; another is inventing popular ways to use these devices.

their ability to work as teams made them even more creative. The tale of their teamwork is important because we don't often focus on how central that skill is to innovation.

New ideas occur when a lot of random notions churn together until they coalesce.