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• I like to think that Not For Sale is the Juniper Networks of the social section, a disruptive innovator.

  David Batstone

  Thinking, Social, Disruptive

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• Fair use is important to innovators as well as consumers. It's fair use that allowed the VCR to innovate on top of the television.

  Joe Kraus

  Vcr, Important, Use

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• A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Political, Doctrine, World

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2003). “A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century”, p.162, Routledge

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• Entrepreneurial knowledge has little to do with certified expertise, advanced degrees, or the learning of establishment schools. The fashionably educated and cultivated spurn the kind of fanatically focused learning commanded by the innovators. Wealth all too often comes from doing what other people consider insufferably boring or unendurably hard.

  George Gilder

  School, People, Degrees

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• Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today.

  Stephen Wolfram

  Important, Today, Computing

  Stephen Wolfram (1999). “The MATHEMATICA ® Book, Version 4”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• It’s very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it’s merely about combining ingredients, but that’s something you can do with your eyes closed.

  Ferran Adria

  Eye, Discipline, Levels

  "What next for El Bulli mastermind Ferran Adrià?". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 2, 2012.

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• An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done.

  Raghunath Anant Mashelkar

  Motivational, Inspiration, Innovation

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• Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it...The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Thinking, Passing On

  "Tributes to Steve Jobs", www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

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• One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals from Nazi Germany, where Hitler held him in veneration, Henry Ford was also an employer who paid his workers more than his competitors, an innovator who pioneered the assembly line and a visionary whose part in the creation of the twentieth century was so great that Aldous Huxley, in his Brave New World, prefigured a society whose calendar was divided into BF and AF-Before Ford and After Ford.

  Stephen Fry

  Brave New World, Enemy, Unions

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• Microsoft doesn't have to make back the purchase price. They have to make something of Skype, not from Skype. If they fail to grow as a company, I'm going to conclude that Microsoft has officially and deliberately taken themselves off the list of "A list innovators."

  Andy Ihnatko

  Taken, Microsoft, Skype

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• They knew only too well the intimate bond which unites faith with worship, 'the law of belief with the law of prayer,' and so, under the pretext of restoring it to its primitive form, they corrupted the order of the liturgy in many respects to adapt it to the errors of the Innovators.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Prayer, Errors, Order

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• Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and that needs to be celebrated more.

  Fiona Wood

  Leadership, Sports, Australia

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• I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Wrestling

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• There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

  Fred Wilson

  Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Good Things

  "What We Are Seeing" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy.

  Tom Vilsack

  Work, Agriculture, America

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• The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to an outsider. The eucharist is just sublimated cannibalism, to the unawakened. When the Pope kisses the feet of the laity, he looks like an old toe-queen to some people. The rites of Pan look like a suburban orgy.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Queens, Kissing, Feet

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• It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Believe, Art Of War, Men

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1513.

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• Great leaders are paradoxical. They catalyze, rather control, the work of their teams. They have an overarching vision for the team but are not autocratic in the realization of this vision. Their eyes are open to whatever results occur-not just planned goals, because serendipity is a great innovator.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Leadership, Team, Eye

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• Indeed, the term body (jism), organs ('arad), extent (mutahayyiz) and their like are all newly-invented terminologies. We have mentioned many a time before that the Salaf and the Imaams have not spoken about such things, neither by way of a negation nor by way of affirmation. Rather, they declared those who spoke about such matters to be innovators and went to great lengths to censure them.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Body, Matter, Way

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• George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an innovator. He was always fresh, daring, magnificently melodic, full of spiritual quality, and totally conscious of the chord structure beneath the solo. And he had the courage to play simple. He never took refuge in effects, or tried to impress with speed. I hope he knew how much we all loved and respected him.

  Brian May

  Spiritual, Stars, Simple

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• Coach may have been the greatest innovator the sport has ever had.

  Ken Morrow

  Sports, May, Coaches

  "'Miracle' coach Brooks dies in auto accident" by Gerald Eskenazi, www.sfgate.com. August 12, 2003.

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• [Wynton] Marsalis does not aspire to be an innovator, no one else is allowed to have new ideas either.

  Randy Sandke

  Ideas, Doe, Aspire

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• Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your strategy obsolete. You can't dodge the bullet – you're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to out-innovate the innovators.

  Gary Hamel

  Names, Bullets, Firsts

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• In the domain of pharmaceuticals, we need a metric for health impact, and with this metric we can then assess the value of the introduction of a new product and pay its innovator accordingly, say on the basis of the product's measured health impact during its first ten years on the market. In exchange, innovators must of course renounce the usual rewards they are otherwise entitled to, namely the patent-protected markup on the price of their product.

  Thomas Pogge

  Years, Impact, Usual

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure of portfolios from occurring. What they can do is keep the asset-equity ratio of banks within bounds by setting equity-absorption ratios for various types of assets. If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.

  Hyman Minsky

  World, Ratios, Portfolios

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