E. P. Thompson Quotes

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

The music and movie business has been consistently wrong in its claims that new platforms and channels would be the end of its businesses. In each case, the new technology produced a new market far larger than the impact it had on the existing market.

Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

The technology is already incredible and will improve massively in the next few years. Think about what you could do.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse it-and invent innovative ways to overcome it.

Innovation, born from true creativity, depends on movement.

The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: (1) stop us in our tracks, or (2) force us to get creative.

Coolidge and his treasury secretary Mellon loved new technology. Like JFK, C.C. divined that a new technology could lift the nation out of its doldrums; the only difference was that JFK's new technology was space travel, and Coolidge's travel by airplane.

Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock.

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.

I think the most important thing is discovering an idea that moves you, and then letting people who are moved by that idea find each other, and work together. A lot of times people focus on the technical side-"oh, I've got to take a class on non-profit development." Too few people allow themselves to think outside the box with regard to their issue areas.

I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology.

New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles.