Innovation Quotes - Page 17

Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so great - and so vital for innovation and creativity.

It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.

Conversation is a catalyst for innovation

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company [team], coming to work everyday to find a better way, you don't have a company[team]. You're getting ready to die on the vine. You're always looking for the next innovation, the next niche, the next product improvement, the next service improvement. But always trying to get better.

Brynjolfsson and McAfee take us on a whirlwind tour of innovators and innovations around the world. But this isn't just casual sightseeing. Along the way, they describe how these technological wonders came to be, why they are important, and where they are headed.

Innovations never happen as planned.

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23

Science is global, but solution is local.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

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

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement what governments and nonprofits do. We need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.

I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

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.

There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.

I've seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.

There is a reason why George Washington is always one of the top three presidents, and it's not because of his prowess as a military leader; it's not because of the incredible innovations in policy that he introduced. It's because he knew when it was time to go.

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility - a small beginning that must be nurtured, developed, engineer, tinkered with, championed, tested, implemented and checked ideas have no value until they are implemented.

Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

It only takes a little innovation.