There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.
Originality is a return to the origin.
It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.
Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.
Innovations are changes which cannot be decomposed into infinitessimal steps.
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
You get few chances to make really transformational institutional change.
I just want to innovate.
Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.
I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.
Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
To do something innovative means that you reject reason.
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.
I've always wanted to be part of something that would radically change the world. . . . People forget the power of inspiration. All of humanity went to the moon with the Apollo missions. The issue was cost. There was no chance to build a base and create frequent flights. That's the problem I would like to solve.
I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.
You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.
One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.
The public doesn't adopt radical concepts very quickly.
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.
