“Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?” PeopleWorldWayGivingShouldYearsTwoThreeGivenEnemyRichFireTeacherCostResourcesInnovationAverageOperationsExtrasThree YearsOrgansNew ThingsFiniteJointsInventingReplacementsYears Of LifeWorld Health Author:Bill Gates
“But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight in the way of God those who fight you,” the Quran says, “but do not begin hostilities; God does not like the aggressor” (2:190). Elsewhere the Quran is more explicit: “Permission to fight is given only to those who have been oppressed ... who have been driven from their homes for saying, 'God is our Lord' ” (22:39; emphasis added).” WayDoeHas BeensImportantWarHomeFightingGivenLordInnovationDrivenDoctrineElsewherePermissionOppressedEmphasisHostilityOur LordProhibitionQuranExplicitJihadAggressors Book:No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam Source: No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
“If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.” IfsSaidIdeasCultureGivenWorkSituationCreativityInnovationVictimRepresentativesPeer Pressure Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.” GovernmentGivenNationsGrowthQualityGreaterInnovationManagementRateEdgesEnthusiasmCommerceAccelerateE CommerceDubaiQuality Management Author:Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
“I am sure innovation will blossom around the world, given that the Internet and mobile platforms enable innovators anywhere in the world to reach a global market with ease.” WorldGivenInternetInnovationAround The WorldEasePlatformsMobileInnovators Author:Roelof Botha
“During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.” IfsWorldYearsTwoPastEnergyGivenDarkOur LivesCenturyProjectsInnovationContinuingLife Span Author:Bill Gates
“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
“The innovations are changing now, drastically. I remember coming to Toronto from Vancouver, and on any given night in the '70s, '80s and early '90s, everything was closed at ten o'clock. There was no drinking on Sundays. Unless you stayed at a hotel, then you could get a drink.” RememberNightGivenDrinkTenInnovationDrinkingClockHotelSunday80sTorontoVancouver Author:Jim Treliving
“One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.” ShouldMindMomentsGivenChallengesReligiousInnovationCleanLimitationAttachmentWipeConstraints Author:Andrew Mason
“Our two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded, and our two nations have both relied on the same principles to help us succeed. We've built strong democracies to protect the freedoms given to us by an Almighty God. We've welcomed immigrants, who have helped us thrive. We've built prosperous economies by rewarding innovation and risk-taking and trade. And we've built an enduring alliance to confront terrorists and tyrants.” TwoHelpingStrongGivenNationsChallengesPrinciplesEconomyDemocracyRiskSucceedProtectBuiltInnovationTradeEndureIsraelTerroristPresidentialThriveImmigrantsTyrantsAlmightyProsperousAlliancesRisk-takingAlmighty GodTwo Nations Author:George W. Bush
“Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.” PeopleHappensAsksGivenLeadershipAnswersResourcesInnovationEngagement Author:Richard Branson
“Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.” MenMadeFactsEarthCultureGivenProgressImpossibleAuthorityDiscoveryInnovationInventionNervousArtisticManifestationFollyShockFraudConcreteBowsRefusalOrthodoxyRecalcitrant Author:Robert Anton Wilson