We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience. — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time.” — Maurice Duffy Copy Share Image
All I need is the breakthrough. The joint-venture for my clothing. Same as Stella McCartney has... — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Every invention was borne out of impossible. So impossible does not exist in the world of development. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believed from the biggest setbacks we can get some of the biggest breakthroughs. — Jon Rahm Copy Share Image
The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions. — Frans Johansson Copy Share Image
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
The rate of innovation is a function of the total number of people connected and exchanging ideas. It has gone up as… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Our practical purpose is to facilitate expansion of service innovations on a larger scale to improve access to, and the quality of… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had… — Robert M. Hayes Copy Share Image
Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success… — David Allen Copy Share Image
Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
For too long, government officials have tinkered with Mexico's economic structure through piecemeal reforms that seek to ensure political stability but that… — Denise Dresser Copy Share Image
“This is also, I hope, a book about innovation. At a time when the United States is seeking ways to sustain its… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
You grow great crops in great soil. And the soil is the commons. Increasingly, we have monopolistic companies that try to take… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Technology enables consumers and investors to have extraordinary choice and ease of switching, which, in turn, stimulates much fiercer competition than ever… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“Reality is vast, vaster than imaginable. Every domain has a potential for nearly unlimited invention and innovation. The theme you see, over… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“They preferred the invention because this invention expressed and corroborated their hates and fears so perfectly. It is just as well to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Time is a function of impact. The longer a book of mine has been in print, the greater its impact seems to… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
We've lost an edge that we used to have in scientific innovation applications to goods to be sold. In many ways, that… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
“Bree was not an invention, not a stranger. Bree was the essence of me.” — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image