Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovation tends to come in two flavors: (1) sudden and unexpected, and (2) planned, yet doggedly obtained.” — Randy Bartlett Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, innovation is the state of mind to think and do things from a new angle.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
Innovation got hip. It got cool. I prefer the people who investigate the world out a brute sense of curiosity, a fundamental… — Grant David McCracken Copy Share Image
Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process. — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island! — Donald L. Carcieri Copy Share Image
If you have to improve your fuel efficiency every year, it leads to innovation. — Alan Mulally Copy Share Image
Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and… — Peter F. Drucker Copy Share Image
Man has invented and discovered so many amazing things in this world, But one thing no one has been able to do… — Reshma Kassam Copy Share Image
The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don't get the innovation unless you integrate Web technology into the processes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Creative new health strategies like micro-insurance for poor people or Kangaroo care for pre-term babies are transforming health outcomes in even the… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The economy in the next 20 to 25 years is going to change more than they did in the last 20, 25… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
The key thing is to invest in the future, and what that means is - when you're deploying technology or you're a… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The nature of a breakthrough is for you to stand on what you've gotten, what you've loved, what's been important to you,… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of… — James Ogilvy Copy Share Image
...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
