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 the introduction of new method or procedure for an existing activity to raise productivity.
- If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
- The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- The future is a direction, not a destination.
- You can’t allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There’s a need to respect the past, but it’s a mistake to revere your past.
- Most of your innovation is hiding in plain sight, you are institutionally blinded by your legacy systems and culture.
- The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
- The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- A mind get its rest when it is meditative and a mind get its respect when it is creative.
- The true work of innovation is not coming up with something big and new, but instead recombining things that already exist.
- There’s no good idea that cannot be improved on.
- The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
- Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.
- Innovation is starting the use of new methods in social, cultural and administrative environments to adapt to changing conditions.
- Innovation is the introduction of something new. This something is further defined as a new idea, method, or device.
- He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.
- Innovation is the use of tools and techniques which extend human capability and which are new to an organization.
- When a competitor starts copying your features, you can pretty much write them off completely, as it means they ran out of innovative ideas.