Innovation quotations

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◆ Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

- Edward Abbey99

◆ The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

- Ray Bradbury99

◆ Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

- Marc Jacobs99

◆ Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation.

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha99

◆ Do not get obsolete like an old technology, keep innovating yourself.

- Sukant Ratnakar99

◆ A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

- Charles Bower99

◆ Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.

- Albert-László Barabási99

◆ The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

- Piero Scaruffi99

◆ The Brinktown jail is one of the most ingenious ever propounded by civic authorities. It must be remembered that Brinktown occupies the surface of a volcanic butte, overlooking a trackless jungle of quagmire, thorn, eel-vine skiver tussock. A single road leads from city down to jungle; the prisoner is merely locked out of the city. Escape is at his option; he may flee as far through the jungle as he sees fit: the entire continent is at his disposal. But no prisoner ever ventures far from the gate; and, when his presence is required, it is only necessary to unlock the gate and call his name.

- Jack Vance99

◆ Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.

- Jim Collins99

◆ This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It's not that the network itself is smart; it's that the individuals get smarter because they're connected to the network.

- Steven Johnson99

◆ I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what's happening. Because I don't choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you're in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I'm resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons.

- Marshall McLuhan99

◆ I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

- Margaret Atwood99

◆ Man has invented and discovered so many amazing things in this world, But one thing no one has been able to do anything about is, The cure for missing someone. I miss you!

- 99

◆ If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan.

- Jehan Fostanes Nayga99