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Innovation Quotes
"The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered."
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"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos."
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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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"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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"Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out 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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"Creativity needs a problem, and the creative person needs a purpose."
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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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"Innovation is to connect the dots - synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight."
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"So many of the things I invented I honestly did for fun, out of some perverse game of whether or not they'd work, whether people would use them. I mean, it was like setting up a guillotine in the public square. You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it."
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"An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently."
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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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"Thinking differently is the key to improvement."
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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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"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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"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
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"The very nature of open innovation is to take advantage of all sources of creativity in a more open way and make a leap of innovation management to the next level."
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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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"If you don't think the wheel should be reinvented then you are suffering from the lack of creative imagination."
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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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"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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"Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking."
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"As our case is new, we must think and act anew."
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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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"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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"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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"If you run from technology, it will chase you."
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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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"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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"What some invent the rest enlarge."
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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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"If you are not innovating, you are deteriorating."
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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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"When an influencing idea comes to life, people cannot exactly predict all its inevitable consequences."
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"Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice."
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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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"Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public."
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"A learning mind has more dots to connect for sparking innovation."
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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 invasion is a brand's wheel that turns fortunes."
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