“NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.” WayKindNaturalRiskConsequenceInnovationCombinationBureaucracyMonopolyNasaAversionNatural Consequences Author:Burt Rutan
“The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.” Has BeensLastsEvolutionInternetConsequenceInnovationDecadesAccess Author:Vinton Cerf
“At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with my Futurist friends Marinetti, Boccioni, Carrà, Balla, Soffici, Papini, and Cavacchioli, there came to my mind the idea of a new art, one that only you can create: the Art of Noises, a logical consequence of your marvelous innovations.” MindArtIdeasTogetherListeningConsequencePerformancesTheaterInnovationNoiseLogicalOverwhelmingRomeMarvelousCrowdedFuturist Author:Luigi Russolo
“Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.” NeedsHardLawKnownImagineConsequenceInnovationBillsIntentionGatesWorkplaceGood IntentionsWorkforceUnintended Consequences Author:Tim Walberg
“Given all that history has shown us of the consequences of technology - from the atlatl spear to the A-bomb - why have so few groups of human beings managed to resist the incursions of technology? Or be choosy about the extent to which they'll employ a technological innovation?” HumansGivenHuman BeingsTechnologyGroupsConsequenceInnovationBombsTechnologicalSpearsChoosy Author:Stephanie Mills
“For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate because they want to create a different tomorrow than what they're living in today. And it's that culture of innovation that spawns entirely new economies.” PeopleWantDifferentTodayCultureSpaceEconomyTomorrowConsequenceProgramInnovationFertileSpawnSpace Program Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.” NeedsArtFeltExistenceConsequenceDirectInnovationProfoundWarmIntenseAbstractSubtleVividRelentlessUnifiedDrasticAbstract Art Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell
“Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.” FirstsYoungPlayerRiskMastersConsequenceInnovationDetailsChessGravesYoungsters Author:Alexander Alekhine
“Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".” ThinkingSimpleCreativeConsequenceInnovationConformityCreative ThinkingSynonymIdeation Author:Theodore Levitt