Innovation Quotes · Page 80

U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation.

— Uzodinma Iweala

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any oversight or guidance by the boardroom.”

— Pearl Zhu

“Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience.

— Mitch Kapor

“Innovation is a unique business capability to reinvent business, but not to reinvent the wheels”

— Pearl Zhu

We are surrounded by engineers' folleys: too many technical solutions still looking for problems to solve.

— David Tansley

“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.”

— Steve Jobs

Innovation has its limits, of course, and Salesforce has proved adept at supplementing its growth with acquisitions, a tool long available to…

— Adam Lashinsky

Demographics need not be destiny. The waning West became what it is not by out-breeding the undeveloped world. We were once great…

— Ilana Mercer

“Just as Clayton Christensen had predicted in The Innovator’s Dilemma, technological innovation caused wrenching pain to the company and the broader industry”

— Brad Stone

“The key to success lies not in measuring the magnitude of one's suffering, but in the capacity to harness challenges as catalysts…

— Erick "The Black Sheep" G

Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths…

— Theodore C. Sorensen

The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the…

— Donald Barthelme

For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this…

— Sebastian Thrun

Let’s summarize. What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value is created by people who love what they…

— Umair Haque

Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will…

— John Stossel

With the Health Impact Fund, the innovation is paid for separately, through publicly funded health impact rewards, and the product is sold…

— Thomas Pogge

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no…

— Ovid

Many state governments have launched innovative steps such as Ladli Laxmi scheme of Madhya Pradesh, PDS reform scheme of Chattisgarh, computerization of…

— Narendra Modi

To most observers, innovation is a solitary process that requires creativity and genius, perhaps even greatness. It can't, in their view, be…

— Richard J. Foster

Doctors...from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard U.(:)...Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia breakthroughs...suggested...only 13% were highly preferred (and)...in nearly…

— Jeffrey Bland

Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our…

— Charles Best

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

— Ludwig von Mises

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.

— Joseph Jastrow

In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

When I did inventions, I always thought only of the invention itself, but the kids would ask for marketing materials.

— Ken Hakuta

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

— Henry David Thoreau

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

— Seymour Papert

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient…

— William Pollard

We should explore ways to make us a more amazing species. A more fascinating society. We should embrace our innovations and evolve…

— Brad Feld

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

— Henry George

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

— Bill Johnson

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.

— Carly Fiorina

A significant invention must be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

— Edwin Land

The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.

— Jean Piaget

Mind can devise even the most impossible device, invent even the most impossible invention, and create even the most impossible creation.

— Anonymous