"Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities."
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"I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation."
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"The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve."
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"Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation."
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"Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress."
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"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."
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"You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies."
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"Innovations, which are the births of time."
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"Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions."
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"Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation."
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"Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude."
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"As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it."
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"Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology."
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"Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission."
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"We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies.""
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"Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that."
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"Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education."
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"Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information"
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"Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us."
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"Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors."
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