Quotes about Innovation

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

One time, the teacher was the storehouse of knowledge. That will no longer be so. So what would a teacher do? A very good teacher will play the role of augmenter. Also, the teacher will be located anywhere and helping students.

America's experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It's about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

But would you believe it? I couldn't remember one word when I woke up this morning. And I'm afraid I'll never be able to think out another one as good. Somehow, things never are so good when they're thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that?

Remember, there's more than one way to skin a cat. It can be done so that the animal will never know he's lost his hide.

She was an expert in dealing with situations without precedent.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.