Innovation Quotes - Page 23

• I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Discovery, Doubt

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• Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

  Josephus

  Simplicity, Forever, Noble

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• Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Lying, Imagination

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• For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Idols, Selfishness, Valleys

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• Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."

  Evgeny Morozov

  Vocabulary, Accountability, Progress

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• I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

  Frank Sinatra

  Men, Singing, Remembered

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• Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Exit, Venture, Too Short

  "What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org. October 23, 2015.

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• The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Country, Mean, Benefits

  "What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org. October 23, 2015.

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• Once we admit that the public sector takes an immense amount of risk along the entire innovation chain, it becomes crucial to find ways to share both risks and rewards.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Risk, Way, Rewards

  "What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org. October 23, 2015.

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• If coal wants a place in a carbon-constrained future, they have to look at technology like this. And we think that our rule can help stimulate technology, growth, and innovation, bring those costs down, and allow coal a more stable opportunity to continue to be invested in.

  Gina McCarthy

  Technology, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

  Freeman Dyson

  Crazy, Confusing, Doe

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.138, Pantheon

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• The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

  Bill Gates

  Long, Progress, Bed

  "Charting a Course to End Malaria" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.

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• You're also looking at a global warming solution here in Europe: smaller vehicles, more energy efficient, many which use diesel fuel which is more efficient. And the price of gas here is $6 a gallon to discourage guzzling. A lot of big ideas and innovations coming out of Europe.

  Chris Cuomo

  Europe, Ideas, Energy

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• Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Mean, Thinking, Creating

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• Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.

  Joe Biden

  Government

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• Innovation is the never-ending search for better solutions

  Andy Bechtolsheim

  Solutions, Never Ending

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• I’m a Republican who embraces science and understands we have to work with the next generation of Millennials to have the innovation and technology so that we can grow a 21st century economy.

  George Pataki

  Technology, Generations, Millennials

  George Pataki at Republican Presidential Debate at University of Colorado's Coors Events Center in Boulder, Colorado, time.com. October 28, 2015.

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• We need to do for clean energy what Kennedy did for space in the original Apollo Project: Set a bold vision that will light the fires of innovation and make a game-changing shift in how we use and produce energy. And nothing less is adequate.

  Jay Inslee

  Games, Space, Fire

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• I'm sure that in the fullness of time we'll learn that one or more of these seemingly promising technologies were dead ends. And that's the nature of innovation, and that's why we should spread our bets; we should not put our eggs in any one basket. Some of these will be grand successes, some of them will be average, and some of them will be abject failures.

  Jay Inslee

  Technology, Average, Eggs

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• I feel like there's no real innovation in having some music. It's more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being able to tell your story.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Real, Unique, Expression

  "Maynard James Keenan on baling hay, genies, and ruining family photos". Interview with Jonathan K. Dick, music.avclub.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Law, Use

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.

  Francois Hollande

  People, Germany, France

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• The distinction between the religious and secular orders is a fundamental aspect of Christianity. This distinction is an innovation compared to Islam and Judaism, and it is an advantage that has helped shape Europe.

  Walter Kasper

  Religious, Order, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our government's investments in science, technology and innovation are ensuring that ideas move from the lab to the marketplace faster, creating jobs and opportunities for Canadians. Through our investment in Mitacs Elevate, we are providing training and new career opportunities for talented researchers while ensuring that local businesses such as Vision Extrusions stay competitive and continue to create jobs here in Woodbridge.

  Julian Fantino

  Jobs, Moving, Technology

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• In The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, Carmine Gallo captures the true mindset of Jobs and Apple. This book is not just for the techie and marketing crowd, although they will gain valuable insight that can be applied to their worlds. It is also for anyone who loves technology and wants to understand how to create simple devices that are easy to use and can impact our lives.

  Tim Bajarin

  Jobs, Book, Technology

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