#ovation

We interrogate the world by making. ↗

— Bill Burnett

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

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#factors #human #human societies #independent #innovation

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore. ↗

— Bill Gates

#anymore #bad #basically #built #capitalism

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. ↗

— Bill Gates

#circumstances #economy #ensure #environment #farmers

Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars. ↗

— Dale Earnhardt

#childress #important #innovations #made #myself

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

To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman. ↗

— Jerry Kramer

#kind #ovation #seldom #very

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers. ↗

— Sam Wyly

#center #computer #computers #computing #drive

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation. ↗

— David Baker

#always #assimilation #ever #got #i

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment. ↗

— Gale Norton

#better #environment #help #how #initiative