One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.
One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.

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Other Innovation Quotes :
- Innovation is the introduction of new things, ideas or ways of doing something.
- There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.
- It’s time to get rid of the micromanagement style. Develop microencouragement.
- Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
- Don’t try to think outside the box- get outside the box, then think!
- Bold ideas and inventions only emerge in an environment where people are free to speak up.
- Innovation happens when you change the game; you bring a different twist to what is currently established and perceived.
- Innovation is the use of tools and techniques which extend human capability and which are new to an organization.
- Most new ideas and new inventions are disjointed ideas merged.
- I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
- The history of culture is one of negativity towards new work and new ideas, to a point where public annoyance can be seen as an endorsement.
- The future is a direction, not a destination.
- There is nothing called failure, everything is experience.
- Of the top 10 sources of innovation, employees are the only resource that you can control and access that your competitors cannot.
- Most innovation involves doing the things we do every day a little bit better rather than creating something completely new and different.
- Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Sometimes imagination outsmarts intelligence and enthusiasm outshines experience.
- Customers often know more about your products than you do. Use them as a source of inspiration and ideas for product development.
- I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.
- Innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and develop anew where few have dared to go.