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Innovation Quotes
"Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society."
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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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"If you're not failing, you're not innovating enough."
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"Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things."
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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."
84
"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."
84
"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity."
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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."
81
"God always has fresh ideas."
80
"Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things."
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"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness."
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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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"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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"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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"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."
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"What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done."
68
"Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future."
67
"We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be."
67
"Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation."
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"In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
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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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"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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"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."
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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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"I think you have to not be afraid to fail. You have to take risks."
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"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
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"Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity."
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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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"Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate."
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"If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day."
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"It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to , We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do."
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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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"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just."
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"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
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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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"I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary."
57
"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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"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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"Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater."
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"In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll."
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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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"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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"The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone."
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"Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovation every day. And all the consumers are the same: they want new things, they want cheap things, they want good things, they want unique things. If we can create these kind of things for consumers, they will come."
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"The Engineer smiled (internally, for of course it had no mouth). It was feeling good. It was feeling optimistic. Moving at its current speed, it would arrive back in Ireland in plenty of time to shut everything down before a series of overloads and power loops inevitably led to a sequence of events which would, in turn, eventually lead to the probable destruction of the world. The Engineer wasn't worried.And then the truck hit it."
54
"We need to bring Android and Chrome to every screen that matters for users, which is why we focused on phone, wearables, car, television, laptops, and even your workplace."
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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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