Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.
Innovations are changes which cannot be decomposed into infinitessimal steps.
Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes.
There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.
What keeps me up late at night, in the sense of worry, I guess it's innovation. It's funny to be worried about it, because it's a fair point that wow, look at the innovation we've seen over the past, not just 30 years, but over the past two years.
The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.
It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.
