“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
Others on Innovation
Jeff Bezos
2 quotes“The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'wh...”
John Maynard Keynes
2 quotes“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
Steve Jobs
2 quotes“You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll wan...”
Thomas Edison
2 quotes“Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.”
Bono
2 quotes“Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produce the first motor ca...”
Henry James
1 quote“What we often take to be the new is simply the old under some novel form.”
Robert Heinlein
1 quote“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
Simon Sinek
1 quote“Innovators are the ones whose dreams are clearer than the reality that tells them they're crazy.”
Alexandre Dumas
1 quote“Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.”
Tocqueville
1 quote“Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.”
Karl Lagerfeld
1 quote“Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.”
Theodore Roosevelt
1 quote“The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.”