“I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem.” WantCausesInternetIntellectualInnovationPropertyRewardsAccomplishMeaningfulDamageMassiveProtectedReductionEcosystemsIntellectual PropertyPiracyCollateralCollateral Damage Author:Jared Polis
“Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether openly or by secret means, the issue has been pernicious, and the cause of great and wonderful innovations in the principallest and mightiest kingdoms and countries.” MenMeanHas BeensCountryCoursesCausesSecretIssuesWonderfulOughtConscienceInnovationViolentKingdomsPernicious Author:Roger Williams
“It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.” WantWellsIdeasCausesTermCompanyCreativityDoubtMagicDevelopmentLogicInnovationConfusionFormulasUnlikelyInnovativeJuxtapositionSpinner Author:James Dyson
“Year after year after year, people write books about managing innovation or about leadership, for example, without ever going through the pain of saying, "This kind of leadership will cause this result in these circumstances and a very different result in those circumstances." This is academic malpractice of the worst kind.” PeopleWritingYearsKindBookDifferentPainCausesResultsWorstExampleCircumstancesInnovationAcademicMalpractice Author:Clayton Christensen
“The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from one technological innovation to the next, which would cause the economy to "grow" and make everything better and better. This of course implied at every point a hatred of the past, of all things inherited and free. All things superceded in our progress of innovations, whatever their value might have been, were discounted as of no value at all.” ShouldHas BeensMightPastValuesCoursesNextGrowsCausesEconomyProgressEconomicGoes OnDependsUnderstoodAll ThingsHatredInnovationDecadesDoctrineTechnologicalDesirableMight Have BeenParamountEuphoriaImplied Author:Wendell Berry
“The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.” CausesPleasureCommonLeaderCreativityCreativeGroupsDependsOffersEqualMembersModelsOrganizationInnovationCollaborationWorkplaceProceduresCreative WorkCreativity And InnovationBusiness InnovationInnovation And BusinessInspiration And CreativityTitansInnovation InspirationCreativity In BusinessCreativity And BusinessInspiration And InnovationCreative Collaboration Author:Warren G. Bennis
“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.” Has BeensEyeLastsFormFoundCausesWaterAnswersCreativityAirSeaCreationStrangeMountainBirdStonesInnovationPlantVariousCirclesSpotsEngagedVisibleShellsMy ThoughtsThunderCountrysideSeaweedStrange Phenomena Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“It's a slow process, but it is scary, because if someone can control your energy sources, they can control you. We are already being told what light bulbs we can and cannot use...through legislation. We are being forced to fund research into alternative energies sources that are inefficient, and that cause the price of food, energy, and everything else to rise...through legislation...rather than allow free enterprise to allocate funds to those energy sources that will survive through good old American innovation!” IfsUseLightEnergyCausesProcessSourceResearchInnovationScaryAlternativesEnterpriseGlobal WarmingFundLegislationBulbsFree EnterpriseLight BulbEnergy SourcesAlternative Energy Author:Mike Thompson
“Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.” ArtStillsFormCausesPiecesFiguresInnovationMuseumsFloodNostalgicScrapPredecessorsAntiques Book:Marshall McLuhan: The argument: causality in the electric world Source: Marshall McLuhan: The argument: causality in the electric world