“What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then.This is the birth of a new kind of personal media, where, instead of we're all watching one program, we're all watching each other. And the history of media makes it really clear. Whenever we have a big innovation, the first wave of stuff we do is pretty crummy. The printing press gave us pornography, cheap thrillers, and how-to books. Television gave us Newt Minow's vast wasteland.” FirstsKindBookBigsStuffClearHappenedMediaTelevisionBirthMassProgramInnovationPressesWavePornographyPrintingThrillersMass MediaPrinting PressNewtsWasteland Author:Esther Dyson
“It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.” SuccessfulHappenedInnovationExploits Author:Peter Drucker
“Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about a guy who is murdered in a fistfight, but how does it evolve and what does it mean? That's what I discovered scene by scene, and this innovation of coming in as a first-person narrator was a complete surprise to me. It just happened.” FirstsMeanPersonsDoeEndsStoriesGuyCoursesHappenedMiddleSceneInnovationSurpriseEvolveFirst PersonNarratorsBeginning Middle And End Author:T.C. Boyle
“What won't work - what can't work - is to act like the last years never happened, and that the survival of the [mass media] industry will be found by hiding content behind walled gardens. Instead of sticking their finger in the dike, trying to hold back the flow of innovation, companies need to ride the rapids of progress and seize the opportunities it provides.” NeedsTryingYearsLastsFoundOpportunityBehindsCompanyProgressHappenedMediaIndustrySurvivalMassGardenFlowInnovationFingersHidingLast YearRapidsMass Media Author:Arianna Huffington
“My innovation message, specifically including energy, happened to be the same week that on Monday and Tuesday I announced the Breakthrough Energy Venture Group. Then on that Tuesday afternoon, in December, was when I sat down with him. I explained the US has great science here, this is where the market for these things is going to be. It connects to less pollution, it connects to U.S. jobs, it connects to security, not needing the energy coming from far away.” JobsEnergyHappenedGroupsWeekSecurityMessagesInnovationIncludingSatAfternoonFar AwayPollutionVentureMondayBreakthroughDecemberTuesdayGreat Science Author:Bill Gates
“Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.” Has BeensRealityHappenedInnovationQuestsImmaculate Author:George Lucas
“Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.” GrowthHappenedFrontsBiggerInnovationCompoundsAccelerateContinuous LearningChemical Compounds Author:Marc Andreessen
“Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.” CoursesResultsHappenedPaintingDirectInnovationPrintEvident Author:Chuck Close