“As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.” IfsShouldPoliticalAbilityLevelsPowerfulAudienceEconomyMediaFieldsSourceInternetShould HaveInnovationCustomersCorporationsEnginesDiscourseSmall BusinessPlaying FieldsForumsBloggersPolitical DiscourseLevel Playing Field Author:Al Franken
“Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.” ThinkingWorldWellsStatesPoliticalPowerfulSecretDemocracyWonderfulModernDevelopmentCapitalismBuiltToolsInnovationMechanismModern WorldEmpoweredVery Powerful Author:Bill Gates
“While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.” ImportantStatesPoliticalDifferencesUnitedPracticeTechnologyUnited StatesPolicyInnovationManagementFactorsExplanationJapanTrendsEngineeringParadigmHigh Technology Book:Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions Source: Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions
“Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games on the Internet. What Castronova has realized is that these games, where players contribute considerable labor in exchange for things they value, are not merely like real economies, they are real economies, displaying inflation, fraud, Chinese sweatshops, and some surprising in-game innovations.” WorldBookRealPoliticalValuesGamesSocialEconomyIssuesPlayerEconomicInternetLaborInnovationProfoundChineseFraudSurprisingInflationEmergenceSyntheticEconomic IssuesSweatshops Author:Tim Harford
“The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated.” BelieveDoeRealityPoliticalPoliticsGrowthLeadershipMoneyPartyTechnologyEconomicPolicyOfficeCapitalismInnovationInstitutionsIndividualityIdeologyDataBudgetsFree SpeechSocialistPolitical PartiesFree MarketEconomic GrowthReactionariesPartisanship Author:Newt Gingrich
“Believe in better, which is a corporate phrase rather than a political phrase. We don't want more. We're not looking for quantity. We're looking for quality. Believe in better suggests intergenerational change. It suggests product innovation. It suggests something better for the future.” WantBelievePoliticalQualityProductsInnovationCorporatePhrasesQuantitySomething Better Author:Frank Luntz
“Innovation doesn't come from one big thing, it comes from a piece at a time, from combining existing technology. We have in a sense a stagnation, in all those areas where we have cronyism and political correctness and the precautionary principle. Get all of those together, then yeah, you have stagnation, and that's what we're seeing.” BigsTogetherPoliticalPrinciplesTechnologyPiecesSeeingAreasInnovationYeahBig ThingsPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessStagnationCombiningCronyism Author:Charles Koch
“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.” ReasonPoliticalFashionProduceTasteBenefitsInnovationProgrammingImitation Author:George Santayana
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” MenWorldLifeMotivationalSuccessPoliticalCultureChangeFreedomInspiringBusinessCreativityProgressDependsProjectsInnovationManagementMy FavoriteOperationsReasonableLive ByConformityFavouritePersistConformProgressionUnreasonableRational ThinkingGreat SuccessChange ManagementProject ManagementNonconformityAdaptingCreativity And InnovationSocial ProgressBusiness InnovationBusiness GrowthInnovation And BusinessLife And TimeDefinition Of SuccessTime For A ChangeGoliathLive Your Life To The FullestChange And GrowthAccepting ChangeReason To LiveCreating ChangeMan And SupermanReasonable ManInspirational And InnovationInnovation And LeadershipManaging ChangeConformity And IndividualityAbility To AdaptMind ChangingAdapting To ChangeStrategic ManagementChange GrowthQuality ManagementLive Love LifeProgress And ChangeProgress In ScienceFuture Progress Author:George Bernard Shaw
“The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.” WorldMadeTwoStatesPoliticalPoliticsPartyInnovationPossessionDividesConservation Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.” ImportantRealPoliticalUnderstandingPoorHellProgressModernCreationPoliticianInnovationMedicineLifestyleDriversStabilityEnginesElectricityGeneticsSteamInventingSteam EnginesGood PoliticiansMicroprocessor Author:Bill Gates
“Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in this country [America]. ... There's more natural resources than any nation in the world; the greatest education population in the world; the greatest technology of any country in the world; the greatest capacity for innovation in the world; and the greatest political system in the world.” WorldCountryReasonRunningAmericaPoliticalBeliefNationsNaturalTechnologyResourcesCapacityInnovationPopulationNatural ResourcesPolitical SystemsAnnouncementsGreatest Political Author:Edward Kennedy