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“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?”

“We focus on building innovation and inventing technology futures and we figure that it will take care of the rest. So far, it's done wonders.”

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Author:Philippe Kahn

“Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.”

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Book:Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy

Source: Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy

“There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring out what people really need or want but can't have or afford.”

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Author:Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow.”

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Author:Paul Sloane

“Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.”

“The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written. Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.”

Source: The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation

“One shouldn’t believe in all those so-called innovations. There is only one nature and only one way to see it. Nowadays, they want to succeed too fast, this is how they go about inventing new aesthetics, pointillism, pipisme! All this is just to make noise.”

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Author:William-Adolphe Bouguereau

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”