“It’s very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.”

...innovation is highly context-dependent. It is a response to a particular problem at a particular time and place. Take away the context, and you remove both the spur to innovation, and its raw material.

It is never an idea, technology, market forces, or access to capital that makes a company innovative. What differentiates an innovative company from an average company is the people working inside the company.

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

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

“The American watercolor scene today is about innovation and energy.”

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

“When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.”

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

“The requirement for innovation is stronger than it ever has been,”