Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.

Ted Levitt

Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility.

Legal Maxim

I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

Damon Runyon

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

Ludwig Von Mises

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

We haven't the capacity to compete with those figures, so we have to build a future based on cooperation, on innovation and on doing things better.

Alun Michael

These companies feel that others are not putting enough effort into research and innovation, and they are doing something about it.

Michael Goulde

Greenville is such a hotbed of creativity and innovation -- I know there are ideas out there that need to be submitted.

Kristen Badger

For new jobs and more employment, we need stronger growth and we can only achieve that via innovation.

Heinrich Von Pierer

The (X Prize) positioned St. Louis as being right in the center of innovation and entrepreneurial activity.

Richard Fleming

We would be willing to talk to other fund companies that would want to use the innovation.

Gus Sauter

It's desperation as well as innovation. And it's never going to stop.

Stuart Fischoff

I've gone through quite a few wastebaskets, ... We celebrate innovation here.

Ralph Stayer

XAML is the key innovation. It's what the tools understand natively.

Forest Key

Spain is best described as vibrant. It is one of the leading centers of innovation not only in Europe but in the world.

Terence Riley

Our development focus on recognition accuracy stems from a combination of industry and customer demand and a continuing commitment to innovation and precision in the area of speech recognition.

Jim Blake

Our advisors can go into a firm for up to 10 days and help develop innovation within the firm.

Bob Reid

Gillette Fusion extends our rich history of innovation. It's a breakthrough platform that will continue to drive our category leadership.

James Kilts

You've got to figure out what you do best as a community. We sometimes get enthralled with the idea of high-tech. But it's all about innovation. And tourism can be very innovative. Health care can be very innovative.

Doug Henton

There's a lot of innovation around products that fall under the umbrella of 'good for you'. Increasingly that's the direction the consumer is moving.

Gary Hemphill

I still see huge growth in enterprise computing. In the next 10 years, we will get more innovation for enterprise computing than we have in the last 25 years.

Oliver Roll

... Innovation is an integral part of our vision for McDonald's in the 21 st century.

Jack Greenberg

We want to boost innovation in Europe, but not just by one company.

Neelie Kroes

This case is of vital importance for innovation. Microsoft cannot be allowed to decide who can innovate and who cannot.

Per Hellstrom

This case is of vital importance to innovation. Microsoft has a chilling effect.

Per Hellstrom

Laws are two-by-fours, ... They are very broad. . . . They retard innovation.

Christine Varney

Facilitating innovation growth in China through partnership is an important part of Nokia's mission in China.

David Ho

RSS is probably the biggest area of innovation in IE 7. We've done work both on the end user to expose the average user to RSS in a really great way and we've done a lot of work on the platform to enable RSS for any application to take advantage of.

Gary Schare

HP has a great environment for seeding ideas. HP is a wonderfully collaborative environment that is conducive to innovation and provides tools for innovation and incentive for innovation.

Shell Simpson

They see, they demand detail, design innovation. We have been able to provide that to them, and, as a result, they have rewarded us with their pocketbooks.

Isaac Larian

Entrepreneurship drives innovation. Innovation drives productivity. Productivity drives higher wages and higher standards of living.

Sandy K. Baruah

The American watercolor scene today is about innovation and energy.

George James

As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.

Trip Hawkins

I'm going to show that the Liberal Democrats are the party of ideas and innovation in Britain.

Menzies Campbell

I want to give them choice, which is a euphemism for control. I want to give them innovation by always innovating with the technology. And I want to give them value for their money.

Pat Sueltz

We need to be on a wartime footing. Innovation comes out of crisis.

Bruce Gellin

This is an area with a tremendous amount of innovation right now.

Tim O'reilly

We're looking to realize savings and improvement from this innovation in three areas.

Philip Greenfield

We have a patent system that is out of balance and in some respects is impeding innovation and economic growth.

Carl Shapiro

His leadership and innovation will be sorely missed.

Bill Rose

I just don't know how you could get that [idea] through In a contract that long, you're going to get innovation risk.

Sam Higgins

When I first got involved with Guinness it was not good at innovation.

Rutger Hauer

Architectural innovation was our primary concern until now. Now we want to offer flexibility and a good experience for passengers.

Hubert Fontanel

For Europe to emerge as a winner from globalisation, we must put knowledge and innovation at the centre of our growth agenda.

Patrick Cescau

Major breakthrough and innovation in theory.

Li Changchun

We're going to take all steps necessary to protect the creativity and innovation of our employees.

Debra Peterson

There is rapid innovation. It is absolutely a market that is dynamic. It is driving companies, including Microsoft, to do better and better work.

Larry Cohen

We believe energy efficiency-focused technology innovation is key to addressing the significant impact that this growing energy use will have both on today's businesses and our environment.

Andrew Fanara

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Milan Kundera

This investment in innovation demonstrates that Canada is a global leader in its commitment to the development of new technologies.

Jim Roche

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

Stephen Jay Gould

These products all draw on Polaroid's heritage for innovation, ease-of-use, fun and immediacy.

Gary T. Dicamillo

We've found that consumers are rewarding innovation with increased sales.

Dave Hilton

Notwithstanding [the Apple setback], we believe the pace of innovation behind our new technologies is accelerating.

Gary Johnson

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

George Chapman

Developers have really always been Microsoft's core customer segment. The applications come from developers; they're the innovation engine for the industry. I can't overstate the importance of developers.

David Treadwell

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

William Pollard

There's great innovation well off the coasts.

Paul Reddick

This collaboration with Red Hat will help the developer community worldwide test and certify their applications at IBM innovation centers for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM platforms, expanding customer choice to deploy affordable Linux-based applications in their existing environments.

Todd Chase

Of critical importance is the focus we have had on driving innovation and supporting future globalization and digitization of the company.

Ralph Szygenda

Without enough consumption ability and demand, most of the 1.3 billion Chinese would only be potential consumers. A lack of market demand will make it difficult to implement China's independent innovation strategy.

Li Jian

We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.

Craig Mundie

There is no doubt about it that the work being done at some of the Indian subsidiaries of multinational technology companies is innovation.

Marc Hebert

Innovation is usually the intersection of many disciplines. This facility will enable us to do that.

Sid Gutierrez

There are now more IT orientated brains in Bangalore than in Silicon Valley. That's where things are moving. That's where innovation will develop.

Paul Hermelin

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

William Pollard

This is a perfect sector for innovation and new players.

Lee Edwards

The whole point of this is to generate ideas. Innovation, that's the key. That's what we're interested in.

Pat Ivey

They (the Chinese) clearly grasp that education, creativity and innovation is where their future lies.

Tom Watkins

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship... the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Peter F. Drucker

This strategy of integrated innovation has just caused the whole company to go into gridlock.

Michael Cusumano

Innovation is absolutely essential to this industry.

John Sicher

From this point forward, innovation will be the compass by which the company sets its direction.

Bill Ford

We try not to innovate where we believe innovation is in violation of the mind of Christ.

John O'connor

Instead of innovation, he's offering the old ideological critique of Democrats.

Will Marshall

We are sitting on the next wave of technological innovation.

Chris Albrecht

These measures will help us become a more effective global competitor and maintain our leadership in innovation and customer satisfaction.

William Amelio

CEOs of many corporations have begun to get the message that if the federal government continues to cut back on research funding, then this innovation is not going to happen any more, because these companies cannot afford to fund all the basic exploratory research that's needed at the front end.

Neal Lane

New York schools are focused on preparing students for the innovation economy.

Richard Mills

I personally think there could be a lot more innovation than there is. A lot of what's happening is old hat.

Nancy Zwiers

Innovation should not be carried out only by engineers. Every one might have new ideas every day.

Dr. Li Wanlin

They have created a culture of acquisition instead of innovation. It's a lot easier just to write big checks than it is to innovate.

Marc Benioff

Collaborating with trading partners is one key area of innovation today.

Bill Read

Still red hot and white hot for innovation. W Las Vegas will definitely be a laboratory for a lot of what we are doing.

Ross Klein

The pay-for-use model is an innovation, but there is a very unflinching standardization.

Frank Gillett

We are focusing on maximizing our revenue streams through product innovation.

Frank Martin

This school is going to become an example for educational innovation, as well as having a significant influence in raising the level of education in Indonesia.

Mustafa Abubakar

It's not an innovation problem; it's more a matter of production.

Gary Hufbauer

Compared to industrially developed countries, we haven't done nearly enough to protect and encourage businesses' intellectual innovation.

Chen Jinhua

We really haven't done much in terms of adding to the brand cachet. And we haven't done much in terms of new product innovation and introduction.

Peter Cameron

We're excited to see the innovation that is possible in Digital Cable Ready products.

Mike Hayashi

We can only stay a technology leader if we continue to invest in innovation, which we will.

Klaus Kleinfeld

Innovation happens in the consumer space much more quickly. For a lot of reasons, applications that are delivered to users in the consumer space have a much higher degree of focus on the end-user experience.

Dave Girouard

[He applauded the company for] dreaming up another unique innovation ... completely comfortable.

Mark Murphy

We are confident that mobile TV will be an exciting new service for consumers, as well as generate new opportunities for innovation and growth in the mobile and media industries.

Richard Sharp

That's where innovation is. So desktop is not a market that we want to serve.

Michel Mayer

How can we overcome the resistance to innovation that plagues most organizations?

Peter F. Drucker

In the last five or six years, we've seen the greatest improvement in innovation in the golf ball.

Terry Mcandrew

For such a wealthy country, and one where there is such innovation, the tertiary enrolment rate in 2003 was 48.7 per cent. Compare that with Finland, which was 87.5 per cent. This is definitely something that should be addressed.

Jennifer Blanke

An aerial IED would be another indication of the enemy's innovation and creativity.

Genjohn Keane

I don't see anyone else easily beating them on the breadth of innovation of what they're doing in trying to... showcase new ways of accessing the broadcast world.

Ashley Highfield

We strongly believe that energy choice benefits New York consumers. New York residents are also benefiting from the innovation and emphasis on customer service that competition creates.

Badar Khan