#ovation

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#innovation #architecture

I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper. ↗

— Damon Runyon

#baby #changing #chap #citizens #clothes

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth. ↗

— William E. Simon

#consideration #economic #first #growth #innovation

For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality. ↗

— Paul Allen

#innovation #business

life is a continous journey of transformation ↗

— Sukant Ratnakar

#invention #life #success #life

Chance favors the connected mind. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#innovation #insightful #internet #nature

Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete ↗

— Steven Johnson

#innovation #nature

Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#hobbies #innovation #self-improvement #nature

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#going #i #i think #idea #innovation

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#bigger #compounds #each #ever #front