Innovation
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- And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
- If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.
- Confine yourself to the present.
- Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
- Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
- To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
- The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It’s intense to fight the red tape.
- It’s the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you’re mad, then dangerous, then there’s a pause and then you can’t find anyone who disagrees with you.
- I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
- A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
- Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
- Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.