Jill Lepore Quotes

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

This is the age of disruption.

I'm not going to be the one who turns out the last lights of the last conglomerate. So we need to reinvent ourselves all the time.

My goal isn't to be one of the best; it's to change the game, to change the way things work.

Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.

Companies that tend to survive are the rebels.

GE is 130 years old because it keeps changing and evolving.

Either you change with the times or you get rolled over.

Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach.

Some great minds become great by turning the rubble of an exploded paradigm into something consistent and meaningful. Others become great by laying the gunpowder, grain by grain. Every important revolution needs both kinds of minds to complete itself.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.