Quotes on Innovation

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

We're just enthusiastic about what we do.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.