#innovation

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#advance #cannot #danger #every #fearing

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

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

The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter. ↗

— Paul Sloane

#fire #innovation #innovative #leader #inspirational

You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!' ↗

— David Keirsey

#personality #psychology #intelligence

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

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning. ↗

— Gene Roddenberry

#innovation #optimism #optimism

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

— Albert-László Barabási

#innovation #imagination

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

Pure innovation is more gross than error. ↗

— George Chapman

#gross #innovation #more #pure #than