Values being
created
"Nearly 100% of
innovation – from business to politics – is inspired not by "market analysis"
but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are."
–
Tom Peters
 "The perfect computer has been developed. You
just feed in your problems and they never come out again."
–
Al Goodman
Targeted market
"An idea
that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." –
Oscar Wilde
"I like nonsense – it wakes up the brain
cells."
–
Dr. Seuss
"A conference is a gathering of important people
who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."
–
Fred Allen
Brief history
"Heavier-than-air flying
machines are impossible."
–
Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895
"Who the hell wants to hear
actors talk?"
–
H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
"Computers in the future
may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
–
Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
"The Internet? We are not
interested in it."
–
Bill Gates, 1993
Milestones completed and future plans
"If at first the idea is not absurd, then
there is no hope for it."
–
Albert Einstein
"All great discoveries are made by mistake." –
Young's Law
"Everything that can be
invented has been invented."
–
Charles H. Duel
"Few great men would
have got past personnel." –
Paul Goodman
"Since we live in
age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet
exist and cannot yet be clearly defined." –
Peter Drucker
"The leaders say: "Let's be
more innovative." The staff says: "Bravo. When do we start?" The mid-level
managers say: "Wait a minute, let's think about that. What about… and …? Have
you REALLY thought it through? Does this mean
I have to change?""
–
Claude Legrand
Product
"I can't understand why people are frightened of
new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones."
–
John Cage
"If you understand it, it's not
innovation."
–
Vadim Kotelnikov
"If facts
conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts."
–
Benedict Spinosa
Operational plan
"Good
artists copy, great artists steal."
–
Pablo Picasso
"The secret to
creativity is knowing how to hide
your sources."
–
Albert Einstein
"The
secret to inventiveness is doing many
diverse tings at a time – continually
and
chaotically."
–
Vadim Kotelnikov
"The
ultimate inspiration is the deadline."
–
Nolan Bushnell
Development risk
"The human mind treats a new idea the same way
the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it."
–
P.B. Medawar
Risk management strategy
"We all agree our theory is crazy, but is it
crazy enough?"
–
Niels Bohr
"The best way to kill
creativity in a team is letting the boss speak first."
–
Victoria Holtz
Growth risk
"The more you
measure and
motivate based on
innovation, the less likely you will have a truly
innovative culture."
–
Stephen Shapiro
Risk management strategy
"If you're not
failing every now and again,
it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
–
Woody Allen
"The way to succeed is to double your
failure
rate."
–
Thomas J. Watson
Other risks
"No one except lucky owners of coffee grounds can predict the future."
–
Vadim Kotelnikov
"Inside every small problem is a large problem
struggling to get out."
–
The Schalkner Converse to Hoare's Law of Large Problems
Risk management strategy
"To err is human, but to really foul things up you
need a computer."
–
Paul Ehrlich
Analysis
"Consistency is the last refuge of the
unimaginative."
–
Oscar Wilde
"People buy more weight loss books/diets
(tools) than all other books, yet people are fatter than ever. Why? Most diets
do not address the psychological reasons (mindset) for eating. The same holds
true for
innovation."
–
Stephen Shapiro
"The use of solar energy has not been opened
up because the oil industry does not own the sun."
–
Ralph Nader
 Competition
"Don't
worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have
to ram them down people's throats."
–
Howard Aiken
Marketing strategy
"Everything popular is wrong."
–
Oscar Wilde
"You can have any color you want, as long as
it's black."
–
Henry Ford
"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive
and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing
rabbits singing about toilet paper."
–
R. Serling
Funds Required and Uses
"Nothing ever get build on schedule or
within budget."
–
Cheops's Law
"Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not)
it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without."
–
James R. Schlesinger
"The greater the funding, the longer it
takes to make the mistake."
–
Murphy's Law
Financial Projections
"I think there is a world market for maybe
five computers."
–
Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
"To make a million, start with $900,000."
–
Morton Shulman
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