If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.
If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.

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Other Innovation Quotes :
- Innovation is taking two things that exist and putting them together in a new way.
- The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.
- Innovation is the new ideas or solution proposals to the needs of humans which have not been fulfilled to increase their life standards and welfare.
- The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but building on the new.
- The inventor knows HOW to borrow.
- Innovation is the art of creating a better, a more convenient and more comfortable way for the world to pass.
- Bold ideas and inventions only emerge in an environment where people are free to speak up.
- Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
- We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn’t about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.
- When the wind of change blows, some people build walls, others build windmills.
- Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation.
- Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.
- Every person has a story, but those who show discipline and start writing become authors.
- The future is a direction, not a destination.
- I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been.
- innovative ideas will be profitable only if they are linked to what buyers are willing to pay for.
- A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
- It’s time to get rid of the micromanagement style. Develop microencouragement.
- Innovators make the previously impossible possible.