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Innovation Quotes
"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
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"America demands invention and innovation to succeed."
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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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"Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions."
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"Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare."
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"We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be."
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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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"People who can solve problems in a new way are the innovators."
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"An idea is like a spark in the dark " it makes everything brighter."
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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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"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 strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process."
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"Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate."
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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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"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
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"I have seen the Raiders develop into what they are today."
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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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"We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour."
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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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"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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"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
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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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"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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"Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires."
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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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"Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before."
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"Our inventions mirror our secret wishes."
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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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"I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
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"We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved."
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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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"Throw an idea into the world and its impact will ripple and reverberate beyond your side of the shore."
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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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"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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"Necessity who is the mother of our invention."
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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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"Curiosity is the beginning of all creativity."
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"What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful."
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"America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information."
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