Jazz is not dead

Jazz is not dead
It just smells funny

quote by Frank Zappa

Steve Jobs on Innovation and Mistakes

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. 
It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.


quote by Steve Jobs

Majority - Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, 
it is time to pause and reflect. 

quote by Mark Twain 

Steve Jobs on Innovation

Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. 
People kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". 

Finally Jobs said:
"Wait wait — put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.” 

Derek Sivers quoting Steve Jobs

Failure ?

I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.


Quote by Thomas A. Edison

Discovery

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
it is the illusion of knowledge


Quote by Daniel Boorstin

Middle of the road

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road.
They get run over.
 
quote by Aneurin Bevan

Define it

You can’t improve anything if you can’t define it.

quote by Max Guinn, Deere & Co.

A hammer and a nail

If all you have is a hammer in the toolbox, everything looks like a nail.

quote by Bernard Baruch

Incrementalism

Incrementalism is innovation’s worst enemy.

quote by Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab

Clarke on innovation

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

quote by Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future

Design

A good design is not a democratic consensus.

quote by Edward de Bono

That's funny...

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not, “Eureka!” (“I found it!”) but rather, “Hmm... that’s funny...”

quote by Isaac Asimov

Discovery

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves

quote by Galileo Galilei

Discovery

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

Brilliant idea

Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover

Jimmy Breslin

Discover

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Ignorance and knowledge

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel Boorstin

Do it now

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

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Innovation

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs