Donald Cram Quotes

I'm an inventor.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

I believe that the ability to innovate and to be creative are teachable processes. There are ways by which people can systematically innovate or systematically become creative.

I like to come up with new ideas and see them grow.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

Everything starts with design.

Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

Innovators are developing the ideas and bringing them to life in amazing new applications. All we, as an industry, need to do now is focus on standardizing the interfaces to ensure interoperability - and stand out of the way.

We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

We should have more invention.

It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.

Invention breeds invention.

Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.

I'm wondering how people are so creative, and how many things were born out of and inspired by the Cube.

I had ideas. A lot were good, but in many ways, I had no idea or experience about how to carry them out.

Manufacturing is finite, but human intellect is infinite. Textile is all about manufacturing, and industries like pharmaceuticals are all about human intellect.

With clear definitions and a taxonomy that illustrates their relationships, the Inventure Cycle defines the pathway from inspiration to implementation. This framework captures the skills, attitudes, and actions that are necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.

We're not just limited by technology but by our ideas and our experimentation and how quickly we can try things.

Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.