Innovation Quotes - Page 18

• If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Microsoft, Pieces

  9 Copy quote

• Too many rules will stifle innovation.

  Sergey Brin

  13 Copy quote

• All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

  Martin Rees

  Technology, Space, Projects

  "Small, cheap and a giant leap for Britain" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

  Dean Kamen

  Educational, Thinking, America

  "TechStar Interview: Dean Kamen". Interview with Bill Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

  Susan Cain

  Solitude, Introvert, Catalyst

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.74, Broadway Books

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.

  Neil Strauss

  Passion, Creativity, Ambition

  11 Copy quote

• Establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society and work to their heart's content.

  Masaru Ibuka

  Heart, Joy, Missions

  "Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning". Book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (p. 57), 2004.

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

  Li Keqiang

  Progress

  14 Copy quote

• A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society.

  John Kao

  Capability, Invaluable, Pioneering

  6 Copy quote

• Swiss watchmaking and Silicon Valley is a marriage of technological innovation with watchmaking credibility. Our collaboration provides a rich host of synergies, forming a win-win partnership, and the potential for our three companies is enormous.

  Jean-Claude Biver

  Winning, Collaboration, Three

  7 Copy quote

• I am impressed with the innovation in the wireless marketplace. The Blackberry, the iPhone, the Pre, and other smart devices are breakthrough technologies that have helped revolutionize the wireless space.

  Julius Genachowski

  Smart, Technology, Iphone

  "Conversation: Julius Genachowski on Net Neutrality". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want to preserve the free and open Internet - the experience that most users and entrepreneurs have come to expect and enjoy today and that has unleashed impressive innovation, job creation, and investment.

  Julius Genachowski

  Jobs, Entrepreneur, Want

  "Conversation: Julius Genachowski on Net Neutrality". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Focus, Want, Succeed

  "Quotes of the day: Cameron Sinclair". www.cnn.com. July 11, 2008.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Jobs, College, Feet

  7 Copy quote

• Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.

  John Clute

  Writing, Views, Scandal

  "In defense of science fiction" by John Clute, www.cnn.com. May 26, 1999.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Innovation must lead infrastructure for a simple but compelling reason: Innovation produces new types of products and markets, and it is virtually impossible to know how to run those markets efficiently before they are created.

  Myron Scholes

  Running, Simple, Compelling Reason

  14 Copy quote

• If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.

  Myron Scholes

  Ends, Scholes, Ifs

  15 Copy quote

• Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes

  David Allen

  Creativity, Brain, Attention

  David Allen (2004). “Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done”, p.60, Penguin

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? Its the ticket to solving the worlds problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isnt for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

  David Pogue

  Engineering, World, Tickets

  5 Copy quote

• The next innovation, Sensavision, will be like a Walkman attached to your forehead. You won't actually have your head wired because infrared wires will send signals to you. In 2007 Mick Jagger will be on stage, and when Mick feels heat, you'll feel heat.

  Tony Verna

  Wire, Next, Heat

  4 Copy quote

• A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

  Iqbal Quadir

  Technology, World, Entrepreneurship

  9 Copy quote

• Once an innovation is implemented it is no longer innovative.

  Jack Anderson

  Innovative

  6 Copy quote

• Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [...] is at the center of practically all the phenomena, difficulties, and problems of economic life in capitalist society.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Common Sense, Problem, Economic

  59 Copy quote

• For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don't have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we're satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong.

  Scott Berkun

  Song, Strong, Kings

  4 Copy quote

• Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.

  Frans Johansson

  Execution, Strings, Misguided

  7 Copy quote