Adrienne Rich Quotes

Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.

I love challenging the status quo.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

True change takes place in the imagination.

You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

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

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

... science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

This is the age of disruption.

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

The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.

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.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.

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

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

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

The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.