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Innovation Quotes
"The innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody."
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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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"David Wallerstein discovered that people would spring for more popcorn and soda- a lot more- as long as it came in a single gigantic serving. Thus was born the two-quart bucket of popcorn, the sixty-four-ounce Big Gulp, and, in time, the Big Mac and the jumbo fries."
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"Man's capacity to innovate should not exceed his ability to live in peace."
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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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"The future is trapped in a cage opened only by the key of genius."
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"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."
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"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."
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"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!"
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters."
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"If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things."
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"Regulations in an "Idea Economy" are restraints on innovation."
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"What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?"
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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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"This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite."
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"Innovation becomes simply "creating value by solving simple or complex problems."
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"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
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"People are usually more interested in what is new, rather than what is better."
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"Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box."
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"If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father."
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"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."
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"Throughout history, people with new ideas-who think differently and try to change things-have always been called troublemakers."
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"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
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"A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage."
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"The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts."
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"The one that will put the first human colony on another planet is certainly the most important human on Earth. And you can judge the rest of mankind of his time by how they judge him along the way."
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"Don't always complain the way isn't there. If you can't find the way, create it."
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"I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more."
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"Stan wants to see them work the facial features, especially the smiles. He has a professional interest, from his job at Dimple. The Empathy Model he'd worked on could smile, but it was the same smile every time. Though what else did you need for checking out groceries? Put two eyes on anything and basically it looks like a face."
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"Dagny," he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, "think of the first man who thought of making a steel girder. He knew what he saw, what he thought and what he wanted. He did not say, 'It seems to me,' and he did not take orders from those who say, 'In my opinion."
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"Creative is my god. Technology my cherished lover."
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"A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind."
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"Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions."
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"I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'"
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"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
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"Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only."
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"If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?"
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"Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible."
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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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"For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two?"
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"1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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"There is no more precious currency than the unfettered liberty to explore while engaged in an "Idea Economy". You cannot centrally plan the "Idea Economy" any more than you can plan fun or spontaneity. Regulations are restraints in an "Idea Economy". The entrepreneur is either free to experiment or not."
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"Do a new thing in a new way. Do it always!"
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"Innovation has beauty in it. The speed of innovations is getting faster and faster. Remember that ideas are the seeds of innovation."
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"Without doing anything physical you can use the hands of your mind to change the world."
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"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
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"Great ideas doesn't need approvals, they need application."
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"Solitude is a catalyst for innovation."
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"Companies preach creativity, hire for conformity and call consultants when they fail who tell them to be more creative."
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