What was impossible 20 years ago, is possible today. What is impossible today, will be possible x-years from now. We are always in change.
— Owase Jeelani“We often have this flawed, broken principle of perfection put on us from a very young age that we must be perfect as people. No-one is perfect. In fact, we are perfectly imperfect.”— Ritu Bhasin
Canadian actress known for role in "Quantico" TV series
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Innovation
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We all have the opportunity to be on the level of Da Vinci or Franklin because we all have access to so many different forms of knowledge. Those who study philosophy, the arts and sciences together can make connections at that very high level.
— Robert GreeneAuthor of "The 48 Laws of Power" & Strategist
That is my courage – I see things thanks to young people around me, and go forward fast, implementing before others do.
— Renzo RossoFounder and Chairman of Diesel fashion brand and Only The Brave Group
I'm just a person who loves to do things before others. I'm very open to listening to young people, and always have a good relationship with them. I'm curious. Thanks to this, I try to do things before they become huge – I feel the market, the world, and try to be more-close to the world today.
— Renzo RossoFounder and Chairman of Diesel fashion brand and Only The Brave Group
AI has been an area of technology for many decades, but the advances of the past five-years show us why this is one of the major technology events of the last several centuries.
— Dan HuttenlocherDean of Cornell Tech & Computer Science Leader
Six years ago, I got a phone call in Boston, an investor asked me what I thought about cultured meat? ..my answer was that it's probably one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard in my life.!
— Yaakov NahmiasIn some ways, emulating birds would have held us back – yes it would have given us the drive and motivation, but we had to forget about flapping to develop the combustion engine driven plane!
— Richard DawkinsEvolutionary Biologist & Author of "The Selfish Gene
NFTs allow game economies to be open. Instead of everything existing in – say – Fortnite's ecosystem, NFTs allow interoperability between games. You could take a sword from one game and move it to another.
— Devin FinzerCo-Founder and CEO of OpenSea, leading NFT marketplace platform
Web3 and blockchain are as big of a fundamental shift as the internet was in 1999-2000. Crypto and NFTs create open systems with distributed ownership that can be used to build a practically infinite number of applications. We're at day zero of a gigantic wave.
— Devin FinzerCo-Founder and CEO of OpenSea, leading NFT marketplace platform
The greatest innovators spend a disproportionate amount of their time figuring out how to engage with the decision makers who need to green-light their work early so they can build confidence. Innovation can feel scary to a business- old and stable is less worrisome.
— Roger L. MartinManagement theorist & former Dean of Rotman School of Business
We're pro-tech, but we need technology that works for us and intersects with our interests. Today, we have technology which is specifically designed to hack and invade our attention – and it doesn't need to be that way.
— Johann HariJournalist and author known for books on addiction and depression
What I've learnt is you can only do your best work when you're at the frontier. This is the space where I'm going to do my best work. Whether I succeed or fail, I am going to be the most creative, the most engaged, the most inspired when I'm at that edge.
— Nathan FurrYou cannot get a breakthrough, you cannot get a change nor a transformation unless you are willing to take that risk by stepping into the unknown. If getting the possibility requires going through uncertainty, they are two sides of the same coin.
— Nathan FurrInnovation is a skill, a teachable skill, just like management. If you focus on a handful of key principles, you can effectively drive innovation in any type of business.
— Reggie Fils-AiméFormer President of Nintendo of America, led iconic console era
Innovative companies are not afraid of failure – they're willing to take risks, fail forward, learn from missteps, pivot, and keep going.
— Reggie Fils-AiméFormer President of Nintendo of America, led iconic console era
I lived the change. My company was a way of, as they say, 'scratching my own itch.' I wanted to be able to go on working myself, and I realised that a lot of other women would have had comparable aims and desires.
— Dame Stephanie ShirleyPioneering Software Engineer & Founder of Freelance Programmers Ltd