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Request for innovation one liners

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.

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  • http://www.kauaiinventorsalliance.com Alex

    Innovation…the reality of progress

  • http://imho.mikeho.com mikeho

    “innovation’s pearls of wisdom are longer than 140 characters” :P

  • http://www.phantomplastics.com Chris DeArmitt

    “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.

  • HARISH

    we should invite maximum users for the site to be really innovative.

  • Philip Dursey

    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.

  • Philip Dursey

    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

  • http://www.ppath.ukzn.ac.za Mark Laing

    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.

  • Kelley D Kimball

    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!

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    | | | | |___________________________Vested
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  • http://www.innocentive.com Connie French

    Wow! These are great! Thanks very much everyone.

    Manal

  • Barry Shaffer

    Innovation takes that which is new through a process of thinking to make new again

  • bentham

    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.

  • DocReimer

    If I want to invent a car that flies, first I have to re-invent the airplane.

  • Tim Roberts

    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.

  • Margaret

    Don’t just dream of an idea, draw it down and become the creator of miracles

  • Tim Downing

    Look, listen & think until you understand. Question EVERYTHING. Ask “why?” a lot. Never accept authoritarian answers. Be confident and TRY!