Innovation - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

Einstein famously said if at first an idea is not absurd, there's no hope for it. — Janet Evanovich Dangerous Minds

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. — Greg McKeown Essentialism:...

If good management practice drives the failure of successful firms faced with disruptive technological change, then the usual answers to companies' problems—planning better, working harder, becoming more customer-driven, and taking a longer-term perspective—all exacerbate the problem. — Clayton M. Christensen The Innovator's...

You can only shape the experiences that are important to your customers when you understand who you are really competing with. — Clayton M. Christensen Competing...

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. — Douglas Adams Dirk Gently's...

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn't appear for more than a hundred years. — Steven Johnson Where Good Ideas...

Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas F**king Edison. — Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon

It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal...

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We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

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