Nancy Dubuc Quotes

Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Progress only happens with change, and people love something different.

I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out.

If we want to get to the next level, let's take a risk and try something different.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward

Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed.