Innovation Quotes - Page 10

Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation.

We must think of innovation as doing a lot more for a lot less (money) for a lot more (people).

Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

I know you have 1000 great ideas for things that iTunes could do. And we have 1000 more. But innovation is not about saying "yes" to everything. It's about saying "no" to all but the most crucial features.

On an iPhone, you touch on the digital keyboard and you know how the letter pops up and shows up bigger so you're making sure you're touching the correct letter? That's Nokia innovation.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

I dream of a Digital India where 1.2 billion Connected Indians drive Innovation.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

On the day a country decides not to invest a cent in innovation, discovery or exploration, that country decides to be a tributary to others.

The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation.

We must obviously be much more clever in using resources, regulate with tax and promote innovations.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.

I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't be able to patent what exists as "prior art." But the United States patent system is somewhat perverted. First of all, it does not treat the prior art of other societies as "prior art." Therefore anyone from the United States can travel to another country, find out about the use of a medicinal plant, or find a seed that farmers use, come back here, claim it as an invention or an innovation.