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Innovation Quotes
"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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"When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece.Ford replied,''Produce it anyway."
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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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"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
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"Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires."
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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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"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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"People are usually more interested in what is new, rather than what is better."
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"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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"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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"I do not believe they've run out of surprises."
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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'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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"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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"This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite."
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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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"Curiosity is the beginning of all creativity."
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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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"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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"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!"
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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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"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
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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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"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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"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 innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody."
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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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"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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"Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force."
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"The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered."
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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 significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
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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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"Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation."
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"If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father."
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"Necessity who is the mother of our invention."
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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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"Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it."
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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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"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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"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."
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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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"An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently."
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"Thinking differently is the key to improvement."
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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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