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Innovation Quotes
"Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions."
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"There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity..."
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"Don't waste a good idea or allow it to die inside you. One idea can bring you to the top, make your day or spark off chains of success chain reactions."
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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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"I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths and then reason up from there."
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"Doing differently what's already done is old and boring. Do something new, that's yet to be done."
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"Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only."
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"Curiosity is the art of creativity."
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"Great things often start out small, and only open minds can perceive their inception."
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"Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking."
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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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"Creators always have an advantage because they make the stuff we consume."
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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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"As our case is new, we must think and act anew."
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"Necessity... the mother of invention."
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"You must understand that your creativity comes alive when you spend time alone focusing on your projects without distractions."
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"Time travel..will never be impossible forever."
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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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"Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living."
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"Do a new thing in a new way. Do it always!"
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"Without doing anything physical you can use the hands of your mind to change the world."
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"Innovation is the heart of humanity. We need new ideas and new creativities to help address contemporary issues."
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"Great ideas doesn't need approvals, they need application."
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"Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation."
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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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"Companies preach creativity, hire for conformity and call consultants when they fail who tell them to be more creative."
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"Innovation is a man made change that we see with a sense of wonder."
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"Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had."
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"A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution."
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"Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, build on to that which is already excellent."
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"If you are not innovating, you are deteriorating."
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"In a world as noisy as ours, only those who can isolate themselves will be able to think better and meditate better and hence have a higher chance of receiving innovative ideas and concepts."
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"Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public."
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"Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!"
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"Convert everything around you into meaningful products."
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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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"Thinking differently is the key to improvement."
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"Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective."
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"The industrial-based enterprise of the 20th century had run out of gas, and the digital enterprise of the 21st century has the new characteristics and DNA of innovation."
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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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"It is much more worthwhile to implement only one bright idea than collecting a thousand of them."
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"Improvement is not enough, you also need innovation."
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"Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are."
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"Don't try to fit in, try to change."
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"Telephone did not come into existence from the persistent improvement of the postcard."
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"Start the conversion process and birth your products."
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