Quotes on Innovation

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in the common interest.

When you lower the cost of access to space, a boom of innovation follows, just as low-cost fiber optics paved the way for the Internet and the cloud services that followed.

There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.

Innovation must lead infrastructure for a simple but compelling reason: Innovation produces new types of products and markets, and it is virtually impossible to know how to run those markets efficiently before they are created.

We're supposed to be bringing out-of-the-box thinking and innovation, and you cannot do that unless you've got diversity... It's everything from gender to ethnicity to geographic diversity.

Policies to strengthen education and training, to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and to promote capital investment, both public and private, could all potentially be of great benefit in improving future living standards in our nation.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.

More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.