Quotes on Innovation

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths and misinformation, by stereotypes and shibboleths, and by an inate resistance to innovation.

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

Success is on the far side of failure.

Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Innovation is the only way to win.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?