Innovation Obstacles Quotes

The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.

Entrepreneurs always begin the journey believing that they have the next big idea. They dream of the fame and fortune that awaits them if only they had the funding to pursue it. But the reality is that as the product is built and shared with customers, flaws in their concept are discovered that - if not overcome - will kill the business.

Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.

Professional opinion is almost inevitably against changes.

There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted.

I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar.... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.

The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape.

People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

Culture is the silent killer of innovation.

Innovation at large companies is hard, but it doesn't have to be.

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

Government officials tend to become an obstacle when you try to do something new.

All innovators face challenges and seldom enjoy family support.

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

The FCC should facilitate, rather than frustrate, innovation.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

We live of novelty in science, so whenever you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that this cannot be done, that it is not interesting and so on.