Quotes about Innovation
Genius is full of trash.
— Herman Melville
Yes, in fact, it's hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea.
— Tim LaHaye
Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.
— Clayton M. Christensen
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
— Jim Rohn
The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.
— Max Levchin
If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.
— Jack Canfield
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.
— Duke Ellington
In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.
— Stephen Hawking
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
— Stephen Hawking
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
— Steve Jobs