Innovation Quotes · Page 90

“Project stacking is the art of creating projects that multi-task for you, so you don’t have to.”

— Richie Norton

Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.”

— Ken Robinson

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

— Al Ries

“Innovation is important, but what kind of a moronic species races to put a man on the moon, before it takes its…

— Abhijit Naskar

Bringing in innovation and youth is not a bad thing: it is a courageous choice.

— Paolo Maldini

Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.

— Nick Bostrom

“Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.”

— Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

— Arthur Erickson

I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and…

— Dale J. Stephens

We knew we could put the company on the right side of history by decisive transformative action and by redefining our purpose…

— Frans van Houten

We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that…

— Naveen Jain

The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on…

— James Surowiecki

The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and…

— Jack Ma

The enemy online is fast. They are ruthless. They prey on the vulnerable and disenfranchised. They use the very best of innovation…

— Amber Rudd

When the DS was first announced, our focus really was on communicating to consumers and to developers the innovation that's in that…

— Reggie Fils-Aime

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

— E. B. White

I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we…

— Elon Musk

Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.

— Thomas Friedman

“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste…

— Michael Lewis

The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

— Spike Jonze

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Ken Hakuta

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

— Seymour Papert

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

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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

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

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

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Bill Johnson

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

— Henry George

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

— Brad Feld

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

— William Pollard

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

— Edwin Land

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

— Carly Fiorina

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

— Richard Florida

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

— Ben Horowitz

We work in an industry where people invent technology to avoid what we create.

— David Droga