Breakthrough Thinking Quotes

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Always challenge the old ways.

The current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again.

Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown.

The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it.

Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Incrementalism in technology leads to irrelevance; what you need is revolutionary change.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless.

I want to be as creatively disruptive as possible. I want to be radically transparent in a way that isn't showboating.

This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton's famous phrase. Great breakthroughs are closer to what happens in a flood plain: a dozen separate tributaries converge, and the rising waters lift the genius high enough that he or she can see around the conceptual obstructions of the age.