Innovation Quotes - Page 40

• Research and technology parks are an important part of the innovation infrastructure in Canada. Our Government's investment will increase the foreign profile of western Canadian companies, create new jobs, and stimulate economic growth.

  Michelle Rempel

  Jobs, Technology, Government

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• This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only rejected AUTHORITY, but have also cast away EXPERIENCE; and often the unburthened vessel is driving to all points of the compass, and the passengers no longer know whither they are going. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by QUOTATION.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Wise, Age, May

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• With all the innovation in music today it’s rare to find someone like
  Engel writing timeless songs that sound at home in the ribcage of rock
  n roll’s skeleton.

  Janaka Stucky

  Song, Home, Writing

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• The idea of having more technology solving this idea of hyperactive lifestyle is not really the mainstream problem. I think the real innovation that’s going to be rewarded will be on things like, let’s convert our computers from being tools to being companions. Let’s convert our computers from being utilitarian to being enlightening. These are human needs.

  Horace Dediu

  Real, Technology, Thinking

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• Toledo is a place of innovation

  Brett Leonard

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• There is no one, right way to design or develop anything. To a large degree, it needs to reflect the culture  -  especially the innovation culture  -  of a company.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Design, Degrees, Needs

  "Futures, experience and design". Interview with Nik Baerten, medium.com. February 15, 2016.

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• Detroit is a metaphor for America, for America's challenges and America's opportunities. It is a hothouse for new innovation, for ingenuity and risk taking. That doesn't happen in a lot of American cities. We need to be in Detroit because of that.

  Darren Walker

  Opportunity, Cities, America

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• I want to be remembered as someone who put India on the scientific map of the world in terms of large innovation. I want to be remembered for making a difference to global healthcare. And I want to be remembered as someone who did make a difference to social economic development in India.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Differences, Entrepreneur, Progress

  "$800 million biotech business started in a garage" by Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• History repeats itself again, I guess. The rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don't innovate at that speed you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about, is now five years old.

  Thorsten Heins

  Iphone, Years, Speed

  "BlackBerry CEO calls Apple's iPhone user interface outdated" by Katie Marsal, appleinsider.com. March 18, 2013.

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• At the very core of RIM is the innovation. We always think ahead. We always think forward. We sometimes think the unthinkable. And that is fantastic.

  Thorsten Heins

  Thinking, Sometimes, Fantastic

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• As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Risk, India, Very Good

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• As IT enters the mobile-cloud era, IT providers need to be more innovative about addressing customers' fast changing needs. Over the past two years, Cisco and Citrix have collaborated to deliver significant innovation into the market. Now we are excited to accelerate our partnership into cloud, networking and mobility.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Past, Clouds, Years

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• We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

  Carl Sagan

  Discovery, Age, Renaissance

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.186, Ballantine Books

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• Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Discovery, Long, Answering Questions

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (2013). “Uncommon Sense”, p.81, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

  Damon Runyon

  Baby, Clothes, Citizens

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• Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Technology, Iphone, Ipads

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.

  Richard Leakey

  Mean, Analyzing

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• To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and under-age children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Children, Light, Law

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• The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don't get the innovation unless you integrate Web technology into the processes by which you run your business.

  Lou Gerstner

  Running, Technology, Internet

  "100 Managers in Action". Book by T. V. Rao, February 7, 2012.

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• Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Inspiring, Leadership, Women

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• Business only has two functions - innovation and marketing.

  Milan Kundera

  Two, Marketing, Function

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• If you want the best things to happen in corporate life you have to find ways to be hospitable to the unusual person. You don't get innovation as a democratic process. You almost get it as an anti-democratic process. Certainly you get it as an antithetical process, so you have to have an environment where the body of people are really amenable to change and can deal with the conflicts that arise out of change an innovation.

  Max De Pree

  People, Climate, Body

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• Innovations and discoveries have created new industries giving more and more Americans better jobs and adding greatly to the prosperity and well being of all.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Jobs, Discovery, Giving

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• Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

  Theodore Levitt

  Simple, Thinking, Creative

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• Risk-taking is the essence of innovation.

  Herman Kahn

  Essence, Risk, Risk-taking

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