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Innovation Quotes
"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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"Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine."
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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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"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."
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"Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory."
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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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"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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"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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"We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour."
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"Throw an idea into the world and its impact will ripple and reverberate beyond your side of the shore."
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"I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate."
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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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"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
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"Our inventions mirror our secret wishes."
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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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"We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation."
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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."
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"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."
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"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
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"We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac."
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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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"An idea is like a spark in the dark " it makes everything brighter."
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"Innovators are the ones whose dreams are clearer than the reality that tells them they're crazy."
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"You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental."
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"For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff."
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"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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"The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process."
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"I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success."
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"I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."
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"Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare."
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"The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from one technological innovation to the next, which would cause the economy to "grow" and make everything better and better. This of course implied at every point a hatred of the past, of all things inherited and free. All things superceded in our progress of innovations, whatever their value might have been, were discounted as of no value at all."
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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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"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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"Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing."
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"America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information."
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"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
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"I do not believe they've run out of surprises."
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"We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market."
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"As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot."
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"As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles."
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"Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so."
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"We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved."
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"New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?"
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"Man's capacity to innovate should not exceed his ability to live in peace."
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"To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines."
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"The future is trapped in a cage opened only by the key of genius."
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