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Innovation Quotes
"To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense."
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"Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires."
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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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"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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"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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"Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare."
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"To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself."
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"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
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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 over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment."
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"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
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"I do not believe they've run out of surprises."
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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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"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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"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 secret to greatness: do what has been overlooked by the great."
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"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking."
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"The innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody."
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"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
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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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"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!"
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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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"Curiosity is the beginning of all creativity."
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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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"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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"Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force."
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"This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite."
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"Until Africa changes it's Mindset - It will forever be a 'basket case' looking for international support, funding and charity.We need to Rethink Innovation."
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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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"Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest."
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"If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things."
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"If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father."
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"The greatest innovators and history makers of our world were not great because of the formal school system but because of self-development through the proper investment and conversation of time."
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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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"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
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"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
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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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"The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process."
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"We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best."
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"Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do."
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"The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It's contextual."
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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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"Great things often start out small, and only open minds can perceive their inception."
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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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"Creators always have an advantage because they make the stuff we consume."
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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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"There are other ways than conventional doors to get around my house, Ms Rainn."
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"Necessity who is the mother of our invention."
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"The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own."
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"Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their "common sense told them was impossible."
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