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• The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.

  Peter D. Mitchell

  Lonely, Finals, May

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• I believe in being an innovator.

  Walt Disney

  Change, Dream, Believe

  "Cult of the Mouse : Can We Stop Corporate Greed From Killing Innovation in America?". Book by Henry M. Caroselli, 2004.

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• San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, San Francisco, Long

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• Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

  Theodor Reik

  Creativity, Artist, Wrath

  Theodor Reik (1963). “The Need to be Loved”

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• He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Home, Cooking

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• The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Understanding, Innovation, Get Better

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• One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Children, Age

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 51, 1799.

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• It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Technology, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

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• The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivation, Failure, Inspiration

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• Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Imagination, Innovation, Vision

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• We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Drinking, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "Stevenson's Book of Quotations". Book by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1938.

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• Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  School, Men, Creative

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

  Pope Pius X

  True Friend, People, Catholic

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• The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Enemy, Done, May

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.21, FastPencil Inc

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• I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for. Anyone who
  has new or valuable ideas to offer stands outside the intellectual status quo. But the status quo is not a stream, let alone a 'mainstream'.
  It is a stagnant swamp. It is the innovators who carry mankind forward.

  Ayn Rand

  Ideas, Intellectual, Honor

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• I'm excited to have the opportunity to lead one of the true e-commerce innovators.

  Frank N. Newman

  Opportunity, Excited, Commerce

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• Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.

  Al Franken

  Technology, Iphone, Apples

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

  Raghunath Anant Mashelkar

  Motivational, Inspiration, Innovation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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