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Innovation Quotes

“If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas... Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy... Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer's... Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.”

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Author:Barack Obama
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“For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don't have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we're satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong.”

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Author:Scott Berkun
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“International "experts" from technical assistance agencies or universities can make important contributions, but they certainly don't have all the answers. When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.”

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Author:Ruth Simmons
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“The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.”

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Book:Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft
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“I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.”

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Author:Leonardo da Vinci
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“To ask the right questions is to not look for an answer. And as such, the right questions to ask are the ones that give us a better understanding. The ones that get us closer to an answer but not the answer. Perfect conditions do not exist in the real world as everything continuously changes, and the context shifts with time, and our bias colors it.”

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Book:Reality Check: In Pursuit of the Right Questions
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