#innovation

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#innovation #live #looks #make #part

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#changed #communicate #consider #data #high-speed

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#because #cases #caught #fact #forget

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#innovations #inventions #language #me #million

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities. ↗

— Leon Kass

#economic growth #enhancement #growth #human #important

Ignore the real world “That would never work in the real world.” You hear it all the time when you tell people about a fresh idea. This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It’s a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient. Scratch the surface and you’ll find these “real world” inhabitants are filled with pessimism and despair. They expect fresh concepts to fail. They assume society isn’t ready for or capable of change. Even worse, they want to drag others down into their tomb. If you’re hopeful and ambitious, they’ll try to convince you your ideas are impossible. They’ll say you’re wasting your time. ↗

— David Heinemeier Hansson

#change

One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#any #attachment #challenges #clean #doing

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget. ↗

— Bill Nye

#budget #cutting #engine #exploration #innovation

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. ↗

— Barack Obama

#before #cutting #deficit #education #engine

Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism. ↗

— Dalton McGuinty

#creativity #future #going #innovation #kids