Innovation Quotes

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

INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.

Watts Humprey

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

Fran Lebowitz

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Barbara Tuchman

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Voltaire

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art.

Bliss Carman

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

John A. Shedd

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Jorge Luis Borges

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

Eva Le Gallienne

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things.

Theodore Levitt

ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.

Alan Alda

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Aesop

Impossible things are happening every day.

Anonymous

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

De Chateaubriand

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

Steve Jobs

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

J.K. Rowling

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R

Steve Jobs