"Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future."
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"Innovation means saying 'no' to a thousand things."
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"Systems die; instincts remain."
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"Solitude is a catalyst for innovation"
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"Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion."
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"Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that if they just have everybody learning what is, they're not going to be in a position to invent a tomorrow because their brain isn't even wired to go in that direction."
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"War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of the innovations that occurred between nine and eleven thousand years ago when the first civilized societies were coming into being. What has been invented can be changed; war is not in our genes."
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"In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons."
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"They don't encourage quality today. When I was coming along, Columbia Records would sit with you and assume it would take two or three albums to get the act where it needed to be. Then the company would structure its promotion based on one, two or three years. They encouraged quality and innovation - that's why groups like the Beatles would use sitars, string orchestras and so forth."
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"One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation."
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"Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products."
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"I was blown away when I figured out that none of the great integrative moves that I studied came as a result of starting with a blank sheet of paper - as many innovation coaches suggest. Integrative solutions came directly from mining the existing models for the best of their nuggets. So I never start with a blank sheet of paper anymore."
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"It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is like that. Art is like that. You can't have success unless you're prepared to have failure. As soon as you say, 'failure is not an option,' you've just said, 'innovation is not an option.'"
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"Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment."
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"Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return."
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"We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation."
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"When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope."
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"I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it."
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"Business only has two functions - innovation and marketing."
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"The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically."
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