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Innovation Quotes
"I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There's a bit of time travel involved."
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"Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles."
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"And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there."
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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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"Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires."
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"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
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"Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty."
"Innovation has beauty in it. The speed of innovations is getting faster and faster. Remember that ideas are the seeds of innovation."
"America demands invention and innovation to succeed."
"Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory."
"Come out with your unique signal and don't always be compelled to go the common way. That is called innovation."
"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."
"In a world full of game players, the only way to set yourself apart is to be a game changer."
"I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing."
"Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation."
"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."
"With the power of solitude, you can actually take up a decision to invent anything."
"Great minds birth great ideas. Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas. Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas."
"The ordinary are here to fit into the world, the extraordinary are here to create their own worlds."
"I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary."
"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."
"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."
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
"Innovators are the ones whose dreams are clearer than the reality that tells them they're crazy."
"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."
"We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market."
"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity."
"Thinking outside of the box keeps you from suffocating inside of one."
"Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before."
"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."
"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."
"Innovation is a man made change that we see with a sense of wonder."
"Our inventions mirror our secret wishes."
"When you come across an excellent invention, what it should tell you is that someone used most of his sleeping time as his thinking time... and he kept doing the same until his good became better and his better became the best!"
"What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful."
"The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all."
"In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll."
"When the PC was launched, people knew it was important."
"You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition."
"Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world."
"To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines."
"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!"
"You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental."
"For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff."
"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."
"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."
"Be eager to explore new discoveries."
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