#innovation

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 Bower

#ideas #innovation #death

We interrogate the world by making. ↗

— Bill Burnett

#design-thinking #innovation #inspirational #stanford #design

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow. ↗

— Max McKeown

#leadership #strategic #strategic-planning #strategy #leadership

His special gift was the ability to see the essence of a worthwhile suggestion and to relate it to what was already in existence or planned. Then he would encourage and shape the new project, repeatedly redesigning the curriculum so that a new department or course could have a comfortable place in which to grow and offer it benefits. ↗

— Charles Bracelen Flood

#innovation #leadership #leadership

Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#ideas #innovation #internet #nature

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#areas #defence #drive #great #hardware

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#creates #depressed #every #gold #gone

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#customer #innovation #producer

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#advances #aesthetic #coming #innovation #nearly

Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work. ↗

— Jack Welch

#beat #china #country #creates #drives