But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem. – Steve Jobs
The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation. – Sandy Adams
Skunk works were emblematic of corporate structures that focused on execution and devalued innovation. – Steve Blank
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
When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that. – Sivamani
All too often, a corporate innovation initiative starts and ends with a board meeting mandate to the CEO followed by a series of memos to the staff, with lots of posters and one-day workshops. This typically creates ‘innovation theater’ but very little innovation. – Steve Blank
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
There’s a popular saying that the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Desire and innovation will trump policy, the argument goes, as clever programmers circumvent controls. – Virginia Postrel
Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place. – Virginia Postrel
I think television has always been one to replicate when something’s successful. I don’t think there’s quite as much innovation. – Tom Selleck
The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their ability to experiment and commit to the experimentation and innovation process. – Steven Levitt
I use doodling for a variety of reasons: I use it to get clarity around a concept, I use it to relax, I use it to communicate ideas with others and get their refinement of them, I use it to map complex systems for companies, I use it to run innovation games for business, I use it to get insight on something puzzling me. – Sunni Brown
India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability. – Samantha Power
The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation. – Sergey Brin
If you look at history, innovation doesn’t come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect. – Steven Johnson
The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It’s intense to fight the red tape. – Travis Kalanick
On an iPhone, you touch on the digital keyboard and you know how the letter pops up and shows up bigger so you’re making sure you’re touching the correct letter? That’s Nokia innovation. – Stephen Elop
Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate. – Vivek Wadhwa
So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic. – Steve Ballmer
Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we’ve had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you’re really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have. – Steve Ballmer
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview – nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. – Stephen Jay Gould
The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at – indeed, great at. – Tyler Cowen
In San Diego, our local innovation economy is a thriving industry employing thousands of highly skilled workers. – Scott Peters
With clear definitions and a taxonomy that illustrates their relationships, the Inventure Cycle defines the pathway from inspiration to implementation. This framework captures the skills, attitudes, and actions that are necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world. – Steve Blank
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music. – Yo-Yo Ma
You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the bulk of it was built by people who came to America from somewhere else, not people born American. We have no birthright or natural lock on these things. – Sarah Lacy
Being really good at ‘learning how to learn,’ as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it, will be an enormous asset in an era of rapid change and innovation, when new jobs will be phased in and old ones phased out faster than ever. – Thomas Friedman