“I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.” WorldYearsBelieveLastsI BelieveStuffRiskInnovationEnvironmentalismAversionRisk Aversion Author:Peter Thiel
“Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.” WorldYearsHas BeensStillsEnoughLawLandSpeechInnovationSlogansFree SocietyMalls Author:Thomas Frank
“It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.” MenWorldIdeasScienceTreeDangerousInnovationInventionOur TimeDestructiveLightningNew IdeasHostileOther WorldsOstentatious Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.” WorldNeedsUnderstandingInnovationGet BetterInnovators Author:Robert Metcalfe
“I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience and yet they changed the world.” KnowsWorldYearsHoursChangedInnovationEntrepreneurRewardsBrilliantFortunateOutcomesYears Of Experience Author:Maynard Webb
“It is embarrassing that the United States is so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to mCommerce.” WorldStatesUnitedBehindsUnited StatesInnovationEmbarrassing Author:Braden Kelley
“Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldFeelsMayLittlesIdeasSoulEndsJoySpiritWalksMistakeWonderCreativityCreativeTearsSorrowSpringLowsWeaknessInnovationMovedRoseResponseIllnessInvisibleHandleMental IllnessRealmsAutumnSunlightCreative PeopleEccentric Author:Duncan Long
“I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live.” IfsWorldWantBelieveI BelieveTraditionInnovationBlindMajoritySilentProtestCivilizedIndividualismIrrationalBackwardsBlindnessBlind FaithSilent Majority Author:Taslima Nasrin
“Innovation has stalled in the banking industry. While the rest of the world is in the digital age, banking remains stagnant. We are here to change this and bring banking to the 21st century. We will ensure our customers feel involved in the progress of this bank and are offering them a truly enjoyable banking experience – different from anything they have experienced before.” WorldFeelsDifferentAgeProgressCenturyIndustryInvolvedInnovationRemainsCustomersDigitalOffering21st CenturyBankingEnjoyableStagnantDigital Age Author:Jay Sidhu
“The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.” IfsWorldFirstsMadeStillsTwoStatesLastsFightingNamesEnergyPartyMovementPersonalityFirst TimeInnovationHotPossessionDividesPausesConservatism Book:Nature, Addresses and Lectures Source: Nature, Addresses and Lectures
“It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.” PeopleWorldLongHas BeensAgePastGrowingMankindBlessingAdvantageIdealsPerfectionAbusePressureInnovationFruitImprovementEnjoymentResolutionAnticipationSchemesVisionariesNotoriousAggravatedInflictionKnowledge Of The Past Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place. We need to reach those young explorers and bring them with us on the great adventure of discovery and innovation.” WorldWantNeedsChildrenDreamYoungGrowsGrowing UpAdventureDiscoveryInnovationBetter PlaceExplorersGreat AdventureMit Author:Susan Hockfield
“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
“America has always been a country of innovation and dynamism, entrepreneurship. And I think that one of the things that has made our country great too is its heterogeneous population where people come here from all over the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldMadeCountryAmericaInnovationPopulationOur CountryEntrepreneurshipDynamism Author:Jimmy Carter
“So many people have that kind of attitude and approach to learning that it gives me great hope for the world. I say hope in the sense that innovations in science and technology will be the engines of a 21st century economy and I don't want to go broke, as a nation. So, the hope I have is that, if people embrace it, we'll have a healthier, more secure, wealthier nation than we have.” PeopleIfsWorldWantGivingKindNationsAttitudeTechnologyEconomyCenturyApproachGive MeInnovationEmbraceSecureBrokeEngines21st CenturyScience And TechnologyGreat Hope Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“When we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the land of promise. And they provide us energy, and they provide us innovation. And they start companies like Intel and Google, and we want to encourage that.” ThinkingWorldWantStillsAmericaEnergyCompanyLandPromiseInnovationFolksImmigrationAround The WorldGoogle Author:Barack Obama
“Without investments in research and science that will create the next Apple, create the next new innovation that will sell products around the world, we will lose. If we're not training engineers to make sure that they are equipped here in this country, then companies won't come here. Those investments are what's going to help to make sure that we continue to lead this world economy not just next year, but 10 years from now, 50 years from now, a hundred years from now.” IfsWorldYearsCountryHelpingNextLosesCompanyEconomyThis WorldProductsTrainingResearchHundredInnovationSellsInvestmentAround The WorldApplesEngineersNext YearWorld Economy Author:Barack Obama
“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
“I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money"... If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best.” PeopleIfsWorldWantShouldEnergyFocusIndustryShould HaveInnovationPressesFocusedMaking MoneyChanging The WorldPrintingBasementsPrinting Press Author:Philippe Kahn
“Demographics need not be destiny. The waning West became what it is not by out-breeding the undeveloped world. We were once great not because of huge numbers, but due to human capital - people of superior ideas and abilities, capable of innovation, exploration, science, philosophy.” PeopleWorldNeedsHumansIdeasPhilosophyAbilityNumbersDestinyHugeCapableInnovationWestDuesSuperiorsExplorationBreedingDemographicsHuge Numbers Author:Ilana Mercer
“[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter” WorldWantImportantMatterMediaHugeAmountInternetInnovationLifetimeAvailableWideWhat You WantRapidsRubbishEncyclopediaWorld Wide Web Author:Richard Dawkins
“[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.” KnowsWorldNeedsHumansWinningFictionSituationClassTechnologyFantasyAchieveWillingPureBasesInnovationScience FictionAriseNarrativeExtrasProseDistinguishedDisbeliefPseudoSuspensionSuspension Of Disbelief Author:Kingsley Amis
“No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.” WorldYearsDoneEnoughPastRevolutionThirdsInnovationInventionToiletsSave A LifeSanitation Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell
“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
“Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations.” WorldDoeAmericaNationsTechnologyInternetMoonProjectsInnovationAvailableDefenseDevelopingTherapyGenesAdvancementApolloBiomedical Author:Martin Heinrich
“Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.” ThinkingWorldAmericaQualitySeriousInnovationEducationalImprovementQuality Of LifeDelusional Author:Dean Kamen
“When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.” WorldFirstsHumansUsePassionLinesCreativityInformationInternetAmbitionInnovationGreedAdvertisingLiberationConformityCommerceFloating Author:Neil Strauss
“What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? Its the ticket to solving the worlds problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isnt for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?” IfsWorldProblemEnergyInterestInnovationGlobal WarmingNew WorldEngineeringPollutionTicketsWorld Problems Author:David Pogue
“A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.” WorldTechnologyStandardsInnovationBottomEntrepreneurshipUnusual Author:Iqbal Quadir
“When does your next idea come? You don't really know yet, and therefore there's a lot of uncertainty associated with innovation companies. Most often, the true innovators have to stand all by themselves at the beginning and predict that the world will be different.” KnowsWorldDoeIdeasDifferentNextCompanyInnovationUncertaintyInnovators Author:Christopher Galvin
“Leading innovation can be a uniquely lonely and unpopular thing because most of the time, you have to stand by yourself saying, "Everybody sees the world this way. I see the world another way."” WorldWayLonelyInnovationAnother Way Author:Christopher Galvin
“It's 2013 ... The Time's obituary for Yvonne Brill, renowned rocket scientist, winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovations, leads with, 'She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. "The world's best mom," her son Matthew said.” WorldYearsMeanChildrenMadeSaidJobsThreeTechnologySonMomHusbandScientistInnovationRaisesEightWinnerSexismMedalRocketsBeefMatthewObituaryRenownedBest MomTechnology And Innovation Author:Deborah Copaken
“The best innovations - both socially and economically - come from the pursuit of ideals that are noble and timeless: joy, wisdom, beauty, truth, equality, community, sustainability and, most of all, love. These are the things we live for, and the innovations that really make a difference are the ones that are life-enhancing. And that’s why the heart of innovation is a desire to re-enchant the world.” WorldHeartJoyDesireCommunityDifferencesIdealsInnovationNoblePursuitMaking A DifferenceSustainabilityTimeless Author:Gary Hamel
“So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth, that enabled us to move out into every econiche on the globe during the Upper Palaeolithic. We could call it the String Revolution.” WorldHumansFactsEarthMovingSimplePowerfulRaceRevolutionWeaponsInnovationConquerHuman RaceStringsSuspectsGlobesUnseenIngenuityHuman WillTaming Author:E. J. W. Barber
“Japan will change. Let's create a country where innovation is constantly happening, giving birth to new industries to lead the world, when I visit Silicon Valley I want to think about how we can take Silicon Valley's ways and make them work in Japan.” ThinkingWorldWayWantGivingCountryChangeIndustryBirthHappeningsInnovationJapanValleysSiliconGiving BirthSilicon Valley Author:Shinzo Abe
“When you venture at life with curiosity, you can learn from anything. You learn from things that you could never maybe thought you could learn from. And when you actually step into the room with a lot of people who have an education in a classroom, that is very similar to other people's educations, you'll actually come with a unique perspective that could be a valuable perspective that creates an innovation that could change the world.” PeopleWorldRoomsStepsPerspectiveUniqueInnovationCuriosityValuableChanging The WorldClassroomVentureUnique Perspective Author:Ashton Kutcher
“The trend lines in research and innovation look good for places such as India and China and less good for America as we go forward. So even if you're not enchanted by the prospect of cosmic discovery, the prospect of dying poor may be what it takes to understand the role of this adventure in the future of the natural world in which we live.” IfsWorldLooksMayAmericaNaturalLinesPoorRolesDyingAdventureResearchDiscoveryIndiaInnovationChinaTrendsCosmicNatural WorldEnchantedResearch And Innovation Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The modern world has created airports and hospitals and put 10,000 songs in our pocket. It has built gleaming buildings and computers and advances and innovations that blow our minds. But we have soul, and spirit, and consciousness, and the modern world hasn't done so well at helping us name and understand what it means to be thriving and fully alive with a full heart.” WorldMindWellsHeartMeanSoulDoneHelpingSpiritSongNamesConsciousnessAliveModernBuildingComputerBuiltInnovationBlowPocketsHospitalsAirportsModern WorldFull Hearts Author:Rob Bell
“What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest. You would have thought that the end of all this innovation, technological advancement, and financial wizardry should be to create less work, not more of it.” WorldShouldEndsCountrySeemsTermEconomicHard WorkInnovationExtraordinaryFinancialHardestTechnologicalAdvancementOutputWizardryTechnological Advancement Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.” IfsWorldWayDifferentIndividualProductsPerspectiveInnovationInsightDifferent WaysAphorismExecutionInquiryLensesInnovativeBrillianceInnovators Author:Gary Hamel
“Fighting Climate Change calls for innovation, cooperation and will power to make the changes that the world needs.” WorldNeedsFightingIndiaInnovationClimateClimate ChangeCooperationWill Power Author:Narendra Modi
“It is India's responsibility to display its strength to the World through knowledge and innovations.” WorldResponsibilityIndiaInnovationDisplay Author:Narendra Modi
“FDI is a responsibility for Indians & an opportunity for the World. My definition of FDI for the people of India is 'First Develop India'.” PeopleWorldFirstsOpportunityResponsibilityIndiaInnovationDefinitions Author:Narendra Modi
“Time has come to show India's strength to the world. Lets recognise our demographic dividend & present image of a Skilled India to the world.” WorldShowsIndiaInnovationRecogniseDemographicsDividends Author:Narendra Modi
“Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.” WorldLyingCreativityInnovationAlternativesThese DaysConservatismCreativity And Innovation Author:Robert Heller
“... Athenians are addicted to innovation. They are daring beyond their judgment they toil on with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting, they were born into the world to take no rest themselves, and to give none to others.” WorldGivingLittlesOpportunityEnjoyBornJudgmentInnovationEngagedDaringToilAthenians Author:Thucydides
“Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.” WorldForeverChangedInnovationFilledSimplicityNobleInnocentDishonesty Author:Josephus
“In The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, Carmine Gallo captures the true mindset of Jobs and Apple. This book is not just for the techie and marketing crowd, although they will gain valuable insight that can be applied to their worlds. It is also for anyone who loves technology and wants to understand how to create simple devices that are easy to use and can impact our lives.” WorldWantBookUseJobsEasySimpleSecretTechnologyOur LivesGainsInnovationImpactMarketingCrowdsValuableInsightMindsetApplesDevicesCaptureTechie Author:Tim Bajarin
“Larousse Gastronomique has always been the first and last word on classic European techniques and recipes. I love that it has expanded its reach to cover world cuisines and modern culinary innovations, making it more indispensable than ever.” WorldFirstsLastsModernInnovationTechniqueClassicCulinaryIndispensableRecipesLast WordsCuisineFirsts And Lasts Author:Marcus Samuelsson
“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