Innovation Quotes

"We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges."

Tim Berners-Lee

"The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."

Jean Piaget

"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

Albert Einstein

"Everything was so new – the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. There were no textbooks, so we had to write them."

Katherine Johnson

"If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself."

Gwynne Shotwell

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”

“I believe in being an innovator.”

“I do not like to repeat successes; I like to go on to other things.”

“It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.”

“It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.”

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”

“There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

“The factory is the machine that builds the machine.”

“When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars, people said, "Nah, what's wrong with a horse?" That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.”

“The propriety of stimulating by rewards the invention and introduction of useful improvements, is admitted without difficulty.”

“There is, in the genius of the people of this country, a peculiar aptitude for mechanic improvements.”

“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.”

"It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought and perception of an individual."

Alexander Fleming

"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

"Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation."

Satya Nadella

"There's a way to do it better - find it."

Thomas A. Edison

"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."

Orville Wright

“The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.”

Jean Piaget

“Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature.”

Janine Benyus