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Innovation Quotes - Page 7

Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be managed.

Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.31, Crown Business

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.31

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.

Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

"‘Wake up, gentlemen’, world’s top bankers warned by former Fed chairman Volcker" by Patrick Hosking and Suzy Jagger, www.thetimes.co.uk. December 9, 2009.

Passion creates motivation, which leads to innovation.

"It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It". Book by Craig Groeschel, 2008.

When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.

"Google's Schmidt, Page and Brin Hold Court at Zeitgeist". Interview with Jessica Guynn, latimesblogs.latimes.com. September 17, 2008.

Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.

"Secrets of a Nimble Giant". Interview with Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2009.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

"Here Comes Clay Shirky". Interview with Parul Sehgal, www.publishersweekly.com. June 21, 2010.