Novel Solutions Quotes

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.

If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.

You don't get new products and services out of sameness.

Because when you work with a different team, the expectations are different and then you deliver in a very different way. You look back at it and you're proud of yourself. And when the same people come in and you do the same thing, it's boring. You could re-envision it again and again but when the new chemistry of ideas comes in, something happens as a team.

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

In innovation, you're trying to create something from nothing.

Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and they are all tried all the time. When you are stuck, the answer cannot be one of these, because you will have tried these right away...The next scheme, the new discovery, is going to be made in a completely different way.

The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.

I think it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.

If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

Kids have some of the best ideas - bringing new eyes to old problems.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Doing things outside of the traditional fashion gives me the opportunity to bring a fresh eye to unexpected markets.