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It is easy to overlook the absence of appreciable advance in an industry. Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
The Affluent Society (1958)
I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
Everyone likes innovation until it affects himself, and then it's bad.
'Sayings of the Year,' Observer (London) (1974)
Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
If they started by saying you have to prove to me this has a 90 percent chance of success, they'd never invest in anything.
Digital Britain (2000)
You have to invest in thinking through the architecture of things.
Quoted in 'Steve's Two Jobs,' Time (Michael Krantz; October 18, 1999)
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.
Speech (April 1992)
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