Factors Quote by Jared Diamond Download Open image “Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.” — Jared Diamond ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Factors Humans Independent Innovation Openness Technology Vary
Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate. — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things. — Edward Felten Copy Share Image
“when one looks at innovation in nature and in culture, environments that build walls around good ideas tend to be less innovative in the… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Because the process of innovation often relies heavily on the combining and recombining of previous innovations, the broader and deeper the pool of accessible… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other),… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external… — Henry Chesbrough Copy Share Image
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect. — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
We must think of innovation as doing a lot more for a lot less (money) for a lot more (people). — Vijay Govindarajan Copy Share Image
What really makes the difference in innovation is whether the corporate culture is paying attention to innovation. — David Livermore Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“We come to conquer this land by his command, that all may come to a knowledge of God and of His Holy Catholic Faith;… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Those parasites pass to a person from an eaten animal, but the virus causing laughing sickness (kuru) in the New Guinea highlands used to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“...invokes the supposed stimulatory effects of their homeland's cold climate and the inhibitory effects of hot, humid, tropical climates on human creativity and energy.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“As a result of that confined distribution, peoples who pride themselves on being civilized have always viewed writing as the sharpest distinction raising them… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
With any good projects, I feel like the off-screen chemistry factors on-screen. It's great when you don't have to force it, but when it's… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor — Kenneth Grant Copy Share Image
I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC? — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Both of these places, Cairo's downtown and Tahrir Square, are in the heart of downtown Cairo. They are places where young people gather to… — Leila Fadel Copy Share Image
I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's… — Michael Ovitz Copy Share Image
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
While it is becoming increasingly obvious that the fundamental architecture of a system has a profound Influence on the quality of its human factors,… — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image