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Innovation Quotes
"The future is trapped in a cage opened only by the key of genius."
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"Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody."
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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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"People are usually more interested in what is new, rather than what is better."
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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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"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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"This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite."
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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 say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."
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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 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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"Necessity who is the mother of our invention."
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"Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect."
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"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Creative is my god. Technology my cherished lover."
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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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"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
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"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
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"Technology is crucial to civilization why? Because it helps us make our fate. We don't need God or miracles or the flight of the bumble bee. But it is also crouched and undecidable. It can go either 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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"Come out with your unique signal and don't always be compelled to go the common way. That is called innovation."
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"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
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"The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own."
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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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"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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"Throughout history, people with new ideas-who think differently and try to change things-have always been called troublemakers."
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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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"Innovations are the magnificent elevators of a transformational life."
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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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"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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"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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"Solitude is a catalyst for innovation."
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"If you don't think the wheel should be reinvented then you are suffering from the lack of creative imagination."
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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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