August 2010
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Unlike knowledge, which is infinitely reusable, ignorance is a one shot deal:...
– David Gray from “Wanted: Chief Ignorance Officer” Harvard Business Review, November 2003, 22-24
June 2010
1 post
3 tags
Beyond Design Thinking: Why Hybrid Design is the... →
Nice article about actually doing stuff instead of talking about it.
May 2010
2 posts
If talent trumps investment, a team wins.
– John Morgan, blogger extraordinaire at www.fieldgulls.com
April 2010
1 post
Ideas Cl!ck
March 2010
1 post
If a startup can’t innovate faster than a much larger competitor, stealth isn’t...
– Solar startup Solexant’s CEO Damoder Reddy
February 2010
3 posts
I believe most in educated intuition, in what you get through profound...
– Raymond Loewy
Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
– Benjamin Franklin
Ideas should be favored by the buzz they generate, not by who created them.
– sharkGeist manifesto point 33
There is no try. Do or do not.
– Master Yoda
Pain is inevitable - suffering is optional.
– Haruki Murakami
November 2008
1 post
Products and services commoditize at such a rapid rate that in the end, the only...
– John Chambers, CEO, Cisco
October 2008
1 post
New ideas pass through three periods:
- It can’t be done
- It probably...
– Arthur C. Clarke
September 2008
1 post
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful
– John Maeda in “Ten Laws of Simplicity”
July 2008
1 post
If you want to succeed more, just increase your failure rate.
– Thomas Watson
April 2008
1 post
Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. That’s just...
– Seth Godin
March 2008
1 post
Personality begins where comparison ends.
– Karl Lagerfeld
February 2008
7 posts
Silicon Valley doesn’t have better ideas and isn’t smarter than the rest of the...
– Larry Page (Google)
If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have asked for a...
– Henry Ford
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
– Clarence Darrow
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We...
– Ethel Barrymore
Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and...
– Thomas Edison
Disruption works because it is much easier to beat competitors when they are...
– Clayton M. Christensen from “The Innovators Solution”
…innovation is not about creating new information (that’s the realm of...
– Michael L. George from Fast Innovation: Achieving Superior Differentiation, Speed to Market, and Increased Profitability
January 2008
7 posts
Don’t try to create and analyze at the same time. They’re different...
– rule #8 from the Immaculate Heart College Art Department
Creativity is courage. The world needs more fearless people that can influence...
– John Maeda -thoughts on simplicity
10 Worst Innovation Mistakes In A Recession. -... →
This is a great article that probably should have been titled “10 best strategies for driving innovation in a recession” as suggested by a reader.
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It’s easy to underestimate how difficult it is for someone to become curious
– Seth Godin
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Are you normal or are you curious?
I’m not young enough to know everthing
– Oscar Wilde
December 2007
1 post
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staying fresh
so how did the fishermen keep their catches fresh on the long journey home?
they put a couple of sharks in the fish tanks to keep everthing moving!