#ovation

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things. ↗

— Edward Felten

#different #different things #doing #happens #innovation

For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff. ↗

— Steve Case

#any #bad #bad stuff #better #certainly

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

#audience #comes #excuse #force #merely

The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we're starting to see some tremendous increases in innovation, especially in the clean energy sector. ↗

— Tim Kaine

#american #american economy #been #clean #clean energy

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#because #getting #i #legend #like

There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#bad #been #curriculum #elementary #elementary school

Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait — put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features. ↗

— Derek Sivers

#innovation #business

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#efforts #empowerment #end #groups #in the end

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science. ↗

— Burton Richter

#exist #facilities #frontiers #innovation #keep

If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation. ↗

— Jerry Greenfield

#both #conditions #innovation #limitless #mind