"Innovation is saying 'no' to 1,000 things."
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"We're just enthusiastic about what we do."
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"Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?"
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"There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost."
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"If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth."
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"If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti."
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"It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."
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"You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist."
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"Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy"
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"In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education."
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"Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity."
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"We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that speaks to this decade and what's going to happen in this decade. We can kind of sum it up in terms of saying, "Yes, you can.""
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"Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future."
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"The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail."
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"Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening."
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"Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation."
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"I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing."
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"I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago."
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"One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a lot of innovation, and innovation requires a lot of random walk."
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"Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing."
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