“Getting fired from work gives you the zeal to make your own inventions” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“How many 'inventions' are really memories, of the things we once knew?” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont. — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“Innovation is hard at first, clumsy in the middle but incredible at the end.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“the Sources of Innovation: The Case of Scientific Instruments." Research Policy 23, no. 4: 459-469.” — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Cool innovation might happen in startups, but they often lack the resources or the deep expertise in the problems they want to… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in innovation but I was never able to find innovation inside of disciplinary boundaries. — Dror Benshetrit Copy Share Image
“How did we ever get to believe that faithfulness involved simply retaining past forms and thinking? With the Creator God as our… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
In 17 years, we have built a business that has revolutionized the industry, with innovation at its core. I am confident that… — Mark Getty Copy Share Image
Kaizen and innovation are the two major strategies people use to create change. Where innovation demands shocking and radical reform, all kaizen… — Robert D. Maurer Copy Share Image
If we can't find the next technological breakthrough, well, maybe we can be better than anyone else with how we treat our… — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
The United States has never been afraid of a challenge. In times of crisis, it is American innovation and ingenuity that has… — Diana DeGette Copy Share Image
A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
During the last two centuries, there have been many deflations throughout the world. Almost all of them have been good ones precipitated… — Steve Hanke Copy Share Image
Without investments in research and science that will create the next Apple, create the next new innovation that will sell products around… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are a caring nation, and our values should also guide us on how we harness the gifts of science. New medical… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
At the beginning of almost every industry, the available products and services are so expensive to own and complicated to use that… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be. — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
