Innovative Solution Quotes

When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.

Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is.

Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

Opportunities are problems in search of solutions.

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

AirBnB happened because Brian Chesky couldn't pay his rent, but did have some space.

You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.

What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, brilliant, kind of unusual, stunning solution.

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.

... by indirections find directions out.

I'm stupid," Leo mumbled. "Pi would expand outward, because it's infinite." He reversed the order of the numbers, starting in the center and working toward the edge. When he aligned the last ring, something inside the sphere clicked. The door swung open. Leo beamed at his friends. "That, good people, is how we do things in Leo World. Come on in!" "I hate Leo World," Frank muttered. Hazel laughed.

I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.

There was a wish to get something exceptional, ... I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.

I think the critical thing is the product or service that you're trying to raise money for. And probably the best description of that, people should say when they hear, "This is what I want to do. This is what I want to bring to the market." They should say, "Gee! That's a great idea" or "Gee! Why hasn't somebody else thought of that before? Well, that's an incredible idea!" In other words, the more a person is delighted, or astonished, or happy with your product, or service, or idea, the more happy they are to put up money for it.

Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.

All great pitches have a few things in common: the founder/team is wicked smart, the idea is big and a breakthrough, and the market is potentially enormous.

The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.

Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.