Successful innovations become conventions.

It is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.

— Ruth Simmons

It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.

— Peter Drucker

I would like to see policy makers and international donor agencies realize that it is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From…

— Ruth Simmons

“Some innovations just don’t attract enough economic or social demand: just as supersonic flight and manned space flight stagnated after the 1970s, today (in…

— Martin J. Rees

When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on…

— Seth Berkley

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

— Jessica Livingston

Innovations never happen as planned.

— Gifford Pinchot

If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

To me, part of the magic of this era is that the very same innovations, discoveries, and technologies that are allowing us to live…

— Kathleen Sebelius

When I think about strong innovations in term of automation, robotics, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence, they are coming a lot from the Philippines…

— Pierre Nanterme

“But in the military sphere, just as in science, economics, art, or culture, change is not evenly distributed across space and time. Sometimes innovations…

— Max Boot

“An innovation, or cluster of innovations, in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether.”

— Steven Johnson

In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves through their…

— Charlie Trotter

Accelerating technology innovations such as ubiquitous sensors, cheap computing power, and 5G networks will open entirely new opportunities and challenges.

— Cathy Engelbert

Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate…

— Clayton Christensen