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• The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

  Colin Charles Greenwood

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  Tags in Favourite, Innovation, Things

• What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

  Brian Ferneyhough

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• Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

  Edward Felten

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• Innovation is creativity with a job to do.

  John Emmerling

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• Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

  Christopher Lasch

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• Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

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• We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

  Barbara Jordan

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• Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

  Steve Jobs

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  Tags in Innovation, Industry

• Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

  Steve Jobs

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• Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

  George Santayana

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• Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

  George Lucas

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• A ‘new thinker’, when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

  Frank Moore Colby

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• Pure innovation is more gross than error.

  George Chapman

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•  People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

  Edmund Burke

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• We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we’re in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There’s no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.

  Steve Ballmer

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• 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

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Innovation, Output, Self Improvement

• 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

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• I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can’t name you 20 people outside those we’ve already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

  David Baker

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

  Walter Bagehot

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  Tags in Innovation, Excellence, Weakness, Men

• I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

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