Quotations

“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.”

“You can write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.”

“The myth of methodology, in short form, is the belief that a playbook exists for innovation and...it removes risk from the process of finding new ideas.”

“It’s often not until people try their own hands at innovation or entrepreneurship that they see past the romance and recognize the real challenges.”

“The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed.”

“Many technologists think that advantageous innovations will sell themselves, that the obvious benefits of a new idea will be widely realized by potential adopters, and that the innovation will therefore diffuse rapidly. Unfortunately, this is very seldom the case. Most innovations in fact diffuse at a surprisingly slow rate.”