Innovation Quotes - Page 13

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.

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.

It is the responsibility of those of us involved in today's biomedical research enterprise to translate the remarkable scientific innovations we are witnessing into health gains for the nation. At no other time has the need for a robust, bidirectional information flow between basic and translational scientists been so necessary.

People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last.

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.

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition.

I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.

Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.

If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Human creativity and innovation is going to make the exploitation of animals look not only inhumane but obsolete and cumbersome.

... Athenians are addicted to innovation. They are daring beyond their judgment they toil on with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting, they were born into the world to take no rest themselves, and to give none to others.

It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.

An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.

One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a lot of innovation, and innovation requires a lot of random walk.

If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.

Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.