Second Law: Invention is the mother of necessity.
A yearning for innovation requires real exploration. It requires a persistent search to try (and fail) to move your understanding forward with a new tool, a new technique, a new insight. Sadly, the first innovation often isn’t even all that helpful, but may well provide a path to ones that are. This is an idea that Steven Johnson of Where Good Idea... See more
SAM H INKIE 3 6 0 1 S O U T H B R O A D S T R E E T
Invention is easily overrated, and implementation is often underrated.
The Atlantic • The Forgotten Stage of Human Progress
There falls a shadow, as T. S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where Netflix's queue, ratings system, and recommendation engine all came from.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
For the foreseeable future, the ongoing technological explosion will be driven by humans using previously invented tools to invent new ones; there won’t be a “last invention that man need ever make.” In one respect, this is reassuring, because, contrary to Good’s claim, human intelligence will never be “left far behind.” But, in the same way that w... See more