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Innovation Quotes
"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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"Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future."
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"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."
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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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"If you run from technology, it will chase you."
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"Inside the human mind, an idea is a mental spark that occurs as a response to the challenge of a train of thought."
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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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"The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It's contextual."
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"The secret to greatness: do what has been overlooked by the great."
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"Innovation invasion is a brand's wheel that turns fortunes."
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"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet."
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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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"Creators always have an advantage because they make the stuff we consume."
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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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"Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box."
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"An innovation ecosystem is a systematic innovation methodological environment or a sort of innovation philosophy."
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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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"Solitude is a catalyst for innovation."
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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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"Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do."
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"The purpose of Innovation Management is not to promote innovation, but to manage innovation as a process."
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"Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields."
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"Some old and unrealized ideas will undoubtedly be actualized when their time comes."
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"Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public."
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"If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected."
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"The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society."
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"Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only."
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"Regulations in an "Idea Economy" are restraints on innovation."
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"Most people with new ideas are ridiculed - until they succeed!"
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"As our case is new, we must think and act anew."
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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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"If you have an idea, you will likely have difficulties during the process ofrealization regardless of the type of idea (scientific idea, invention idea,business idea, new product idea, brand idea, advertising idea, etc.)."
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"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
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"Entrepreneurship is all about making life easier for humanity, while money becomes a bye-product."
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"What some invent the rest enlarge."
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"Innovation becomes possible only if people can step out of their comfort zone."
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"If you are not innovating, you are deteriorating."
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"Innovation is to connect the dots - synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight."
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"When an influencing idea comes to life, people cannot exactly predict all its inevitable consequences."
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"The future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future."
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"One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him."
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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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"Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any oversight or guidance by the boardroom."
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