Sophie Quotes

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.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

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

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

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

What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

Innovation requires an experimental mindset.

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

I've always been motivated to innovate where the implications are significant.

Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?

Carry a big basket. In other words, be open to new ideas, different partners, and new practices, and have a willingness to dump out the old and irrelevant to make room for new approaches.

We aren't afraid to take creative risks, which is the main ingredient in our recipe for change.

I'm going to keep innovating.

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.