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Innovation Quotes
"If you're not failing, you're not innovating enough."
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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."
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"Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things."
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"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity."
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"I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There's a bit of time travel involved."
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"Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles."
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"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG."
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"It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack."
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"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness."
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"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."
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"Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity."
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"Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty."
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"In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll."
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"You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition."
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"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
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"There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring out what people really need or want but can't have or afford."
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"I think you have to not be afraid to fail. You have to take risks."
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"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."
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"None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists."
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"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
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"Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality."
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"I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary."
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"The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all."
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"Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world."
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"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."
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"If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one."
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"Being innovative is to allow yourself to expose your mind to something great that has potential to change lives and the world positively and you take action on it."
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"Try it out yourself. Test your idea with an experimental project. See what works and what doesn't. Then move forward or move on."
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"God always has fresh ideas."
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"When the PC was launched, people knew it was important."
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"Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine."
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"I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another."
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"Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime."
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"Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement."
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"Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory."
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"And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there."
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"Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation."
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"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just."
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"Great things often come from actions and decisions taken by others, that are deemed wild, stupid or unreasonable at the time, but later prove to be very useful."
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"Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context."
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"She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color. There was nothing else to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it."
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"Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater."
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"I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing."
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"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like."
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"I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need."
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"The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things."
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