I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
Thomas Alva Edison
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.
Julius Erving
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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
This is the source.
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
If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse.
Henry Ford
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