“A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.” WholeBigsPaperEuropeInnovationBunchShockTechnologicalAsianSilkGunpowderSilk RoadStirrups Author:Charles C. Mann
“Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."” DifferentWholeIndividualTermInterestProgressSecurityPolicySourceInnovationDiscussionAccountabilitySoftwareVocabularyDiscussingPublic PolicyCalculusDevelopersPublic InterestOpen Source Author:Evgeny Morozov
“Building a smarter grid has long been a key part of our government's plan to modernize our energy infrastructure and provide clean, reliable affordable power to consumers. By supporting Ryerson's Centre for Urban Energy we are building a whole new landscape for innovations that will be the backbone for our energy system for future generations.” LongWholeGovernmentEnergyPlansGenerationsBuildingKeysInnovationCleanConsumersLandscapeSmarterUrbanCentreInfrastructureFuture GenerationAffordableBackboneGrids Author:Bob Chiarelli
“The Barbarian Way was, in some sense, trying to create a volatile fuel to get people to step out and act. It's pretty hard to get a whole group of people moving together as individuals who are stepping into a more mystical, faith-oriented, dynamic kind of experience with Christ. So, I think Barbarian Way was my attempt to say, "Look, underneath what looks like invention, innovation and creativity is really a core mysticism that hears from God, and what is fueling this is something really ancient." That's what was really the core of The Barbarian Way.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingLooksKindHardWholeTogetherMovingIndividualChristStepsCreativityGroupsInnovationAncientCoreInventionFuelMysticismMysticalBarbariansCreativity And Innovation Author:Erwin McManus
“My philosophy, one of the biggest enemies of future success is past success, because you become complacent, you become risk averse, and that's one of the things we try to drive here, and this is fundamental to this philosophy, and that's in this component change, and also in value creation. That we need to drive creative destruction, not just incremental innovations, but innovations that will change the whole nature of the business.” NeedsTryingPhilosophyWholePastValuesEnemyCreativeRiskCreationDestructionInnovationFundamentalsComponentsComplacentFuture SuccessPast SuccessCreative Destruction Author:Charles Koch
“Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and so on, but a lot of that comes straight out of the state sector of the economy. Silicon Valley developed, but they expanded and turned it into commercial products and so on, but the innovation is on the basis of fundamental technological development that took places in places like this [MIT] on government funding, and that continues.” StatesWholeGovernmentExistenceEconomyProductsDevelopmentInternetComputerBasesInnovationFundamentalsValleysTechnologicalFundingSatellitesSiliconSilicon ValleyElectronicsMitTechnological DevelopmentGovernment Funding Author:Noam Chomsky
“Of course, the whole photographic process has been made much faster, cleaner and far more accessible to people by digital innovations, which is really great. Everybody now has a camera, often as part of our phone, and most of these cameras require little to no technical training. An enormous variety of apps also enable us to take short cuts to finished images. We hardly need to even think anymore.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLittlesHas BeensMadeWholeCoursesProcessCuttingTrainingInnovationCamerasPhonesFinishedEnormousVarietyFasterDigitalReally GreatCleanersAppsShort CutsTechnical Training Author:Michael Kenna
“It will not be good enough simply to depend on one or two markets, we will need to embrace innovation, decide what we do well, and target those sectors in which, with investment and planning, we could make the whole world our client for keeps.” WorldNeedsWellsTwoEnoughWholeDependsInnovationEmbraceInvestmentBe GoodPlanningWhole WorldTargetGood EnoughClients Author:Chris Alexander
“One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.” WritingKindI CanImportantWholeUseRunningSeriousInternetComputerProgramInnovationPlatformsBrakeDownloads Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. The whole notion of how you build a company is fascinating." Steve Jobs” WaySometimesWholeJobsCompanyInnovationNotionFascinatingOrganize Author:Walter Isaacson
“If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea... No one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.” IfsThinkingMadeIdeasWholeLightActionCreativityOne ThingMinesInnovationPropertyInstructionWorkplaceExclusivePatentsSusceptibleIntellectual PropertyDarkening Author:Thomas Jefferson
“The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different.” DifferentWholeCultureNeededInnovationMindsetCapabilityMetrics Author:Vijay Govindarajan
“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.” MindPlayWholeProblemTodayPastMusicWrittenCreatingInnovationMindsetScalesInventionWickedModernityInventingInsufficientGaugesNarrow-mindedActive Minds Book:The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation Source: The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation
“Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It was only the vast fatigue which was experienced by the generation on which the multitudes of discoveries and innovations burst abruptly, imposing on it organic exigencies greatly surpassing its strength, which created favourable conditions under which these maladies could gain ground enormously, and become a danger to civilization.” WholeCommunityGenerationsConditionsDangerCivilizationDiscoveryGainsImportanceInnovationMultitudesFatigueImposingHysteriaMaladySurpassingDegeneration Book:Degeneration Source: Degeneration
“Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.” WholeMightFearAuthorityIntellectualInnovationThreatDeeperMediocrityAcademicCollapseEvokeEdifice Author:Arthur Koestler
“If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.” IfsNeedsWholeCompanyFailingWillingInnovation Author:Jeff Bezos