Last week our CEO Dwayne Spradlin issued a challenge on Twitter (he’s InnoCentiveCEO) asking everyone for their “best ever innovation one liners/quotes.” So today, I thought I’d ask all our blog friends for their “real world pearls of wisdom” on innovation.
Tell us in the comments!
Tags: Dwayne Spradlin, Innovation, Twitter
Abshar Rashid
"Greetings – I am Abshar Rashid, a professional computer software engineer, with a Bachelors degree from NED University, Pakistan.
Though I have only 2 years of practical experience in the field (I recently graduated in 2008), I have been fortunate enough to work on some very innovative and creative projects during my past jobs. Apart from software development, I have a keen interest in Management Sciences and thus am currently pursuing an MBA degree along with a daytime job."
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Open Challenges
December 14th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Innovation…the reality of progress
December 14th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
“innovation’s pearls of wisdom are longer than 140 characters”
December 18th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
“The biggest barrier to innovation is a paid off plant”
It made everyone in the audience at Ionic Liquids 2005 laugh because people in industry can all relate to it. It symbolizes inertia whereby the incumbent process has a huge advantage even if a new innovation shows it not to be the best manufacturing process.
December 18th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
we should invite maximum users for the site to be really innovative.
December 19th, 2009 at 5:01 am
If you don’t know how to quote people properly; Get outta here!
The short versions:
Innovate! Don’t be a cannibal.
Innovation gives you wings.
I Do. Imbeciles don’t.
Understand. Build. Solve.
What’s next?
I Think. I Am. I Build.
I Think. I Am. I Solve.
I Came. I Saw. I Solved It.
Brains + Ambition = Innovative Solution
Become Immortal. Innovate.
Protect your language. Innovate.
Innovation is the Alpha and Omega.
If you’re not innovating, it’s not work!
Originality is the source of humanity.
Innovation is life.
Life is innovation.
Chopsticks Suck!
What’s your premise?
What’s your purpose?
Break rules or be ruled.
Innovation. The only paved road to the afterlife.
Innovation is the only solution to the anti-industrial revolution.
December 19th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
On innovation; Quotes and excerpts:
Here on the level sand,
Between the sea and land,
What shall I build or write
Against the fall of night?
Tell me of runes to grave
That hold the Bursting wave,
Or bastions to design
For longer time than mine.
- A.E. Housman
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex
and more violent. It takes a touch of genius–and a lot of courage–to
move in the opposite direction. ” Albert Einstien
” The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent”
Fundamentals of Chess 1885
“The problem is the opportunity”
-Anthony Weston
“Whatever is consistent with right reasoning should be accepted, even though it comes from a boy or even from a parrot; and whatever is inconsistent therewith ought to be rejected, although emanating from an old man or even from a great sage.” Vedic Aphorism
“The cause of error is ignorance of the better.” &
“Good things are obtained with difficulty if one seeks; but bad things come without even seeking” &
“I would rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia” -Democritus the Greek, Founder or Atomisim
“Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations aquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to idea that might change it” -Nathan Rosenberg
“It’s alright to aim high if you have plenty of ammunition” – Hawley R. Everheart
“Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create instead of living off the buying and selling of others” – Carl Fox (in the movie Wall Street)
“Don’t just express yourself, invent yourself. And don’t restrict yourself to off the shelf models.” -Henry Gates Jr.
“The good is the enemy of the best.” -Voltaire
December 22nd, 2009 at 4:38 am
When people say, “it can’t work”, then you know that it can work.
When people say, “if your innovation is so simple, it would have been done before”, they are usually wrong.
January 3rd, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but if the invention does not display innovation it will soon be an orphan!
If you can innovate, you can operate!
I N N O V A T E
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| | | |_____________________Owners
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January 21st, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Wow! These are great! Thanks very much everyone.
Manal
February 27th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Innovation takes that which is new through a process of thinking to make new again
March 8th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Dinosaur one: “see that big thing in the sky, that’s a meteor”
Dinosaur two: “You called it an innovation yesterday”
A small mammal scurries off.
March 25th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
If I want to invent a car that flies, first I have to re-invent the airplane.
May 1st, 2010 at 11:13 am
Experts are often too close to their subject. Others may try things that experts would dismiss as bound to fail. Mostly these do fail – but if they don’t, they may be breakthroughs.
June 1st, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Don’t just dream of an idea, draw it down and become the creator of miracles