Failure ?

Posted by jonathan Posted on 9:12 AM
I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.


Quote by Thomas A. Edison
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Discovery

Posted by jonathan Posted on 5:15 AM
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
it is the illusion of knowledge


Quote by Daniel Boorstin
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Middle of the road

Posted by jonathan Posted on 11:33 PM
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road.
They get run over.
 
quote by Aneurin Bevan
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Define it

Posted by jonathan Posted on 2:23 AM
You can’t improve anything if you can’t define it.

quote by Max Guinn, Deere & Co.
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A hammer and a nail

Posted by jonathan Posted on 2:15 AM
If all you have is a hammer in the toolbox, everything looks like a nail.

quote by Bernard Baruch
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Incrementalism

Posted by jonathan Posted on 12:58 AM
Incrementalism is innovation’s worst enemy.

quote by Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab
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Clarke on innovation

Posted by jonathan Posted on 12:56 AM
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

quote by Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future
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Design

Posted by jonathan Posted on 1:24 AM
A good design is not a democratic consensus.

quote by Edward de Bono
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That's funny...

Posted by jonathan Posted on 1:20 PM
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not, “Eureka!” (“I found it!”) but rather, “Hmm... that’s funny...”

quote by Isaac Asimov
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Discovery

Posted by jonathan Posted on 12:34 PM
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves

quote by Galileo Galilei
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Discovery

Posted by jonathan Posted on 6:03 AM
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce
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Brilliant idea

Posted by jonathan Posted on 4:00 AM
Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover

Jimmy Breslin
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Discover

Posted by jonathan Posted on 5:58 AM
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Ignorance and knowledge

Posted by jonathan Posted on 2:00 AM
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel Boorstin
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Do it now

Posted by jonathan Posted on 1:41 AM
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

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Innovation

Posted by jonathan Posted on 1:31 AM
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs
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Fantasy

Posted by jonathan Posted on 9:16 AM
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking

Albert Einstein
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Creativity and salesmanship

Posted by jonathan Posted on 4:50 AM
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David Ogilvy
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Right and wrong

Posted by jonathan Posted on 6:09 AM
It is very wrong to be very right before everybody else

Montaigne
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Old and new ideas

Posted by jonathan Posted on 6:00 AM
The real difficulty lies not in developing new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones

JM Keynes
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