To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas Alva Edison

• innovation

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. John Cage

• ideas
• innovation

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay

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To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes. Julius Erving

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• mistakes

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

• discovery
• innovation
• imagination

Training yourself to think unthinkable thoughts has advantages beyond the thoughts themselves. It's like stretching. When you stretch before running, you put your body into positions much more extreme than any it will assume during the run. If you can think things so outside the box that they'd make people's hair stand on end, you'll have no trouble with the small trips outside the box that people call innovative. Paul Graham

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• thought
• creativity

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There's nothing more valuable than an unmet need that is just becoming fixable. If you find something broken that you can fix for a lot of people, you've found a gold mine. As with an actual gold mine, you still have to work hard to get the gold out of it. But at least you know where the seam is, and that's the hard part. Paul Graham

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• business

If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse. Henry Ford

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Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently pushing what's not working. Derek Sivers

• innovation
• persistence
• success

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When we are afraid and insecure, we often look for validation by looking for other folks who have done what we would like to do. That is a mistake. Have courage to do something new. Almost every great effort started by carving out a unique lane that everyone else is ignoring. Sal Khan

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