This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk. – Timothy Geithner
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. – Winston Churchill
Pools have their own uniqueness, design and engineering to depict culture, history or innovation. – Troy Dumais
Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way. – Tom Freston
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style. – Yves Saint Laurent
Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in the common interest. – Thomas Piketty
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation. – Steven Johnson
Innovation in an existing company is not just the sum of great technology, key acquisitions, or smart people. Corporate innovation needs a culture that matches and supports it. – Steve Blank
The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences. – Virginia Postrel
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
In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education. – Tom Vilsack
When you lower the cost of access to space, a boom of innovation follows, just as low-cost fiber optics paved the way for the Internet and the cloud services that followed. – Steve Jurvetson
If you look at where innovation – defined as ideas, not as commercial product – tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative. – Steven Johnson
I don’t mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it’s important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen. – Taylor Wilson
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
And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that’s there. – Steve Ballmer
Geeks are a critical driver of America’s innovation ecosystem, from the entrepreneurs launching startups in Silicon Valley to the scientists experimenting in university research labs to the whiz kids building gadgets in their parents’ garages. – Todd Park
Government is truly beginning to embrace the power of innovation for the people and by the people, the idea that if government collaborates openly with and unleashes the ingenuity of the public, it will get much more done, much faster and at much lower cost than if government acted alone. – Todd Park
When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the ‘low-hanging fruit’ has been exhausted. So radio, flush toilets, electricity, and automobiles – a lot of very basic inventions – have spread to almost all households. – Tyler Cowen
If companies don’t think systemically enough – if they try to capture too much of the value – eventually, innovation moves somewhere else. – Tim O’Reilly
St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the early part of the 20th century. Along with that, we’ve been a leader in medical science and biomedical science and innovation in medicine. – William Henry Danforth
‘Out of the box’ corporate thinking helped carry real American innovation out in a box. A pine box. – Tina Brown
The Obama Administration cares deeply about innovation and about helping to make sure that geeks across the country, those coming up with new discoveries and exciting inventions – and creating jobs along the way – have the freedom and security to keep innovating. – Todd Park
If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation. – Tom Landry
We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and – and remove the barriers to every form of energy. – Ted Cruz
Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded. – Warren Littlefield