innovation

Bill Gates on Microsoft's "hard-core detractors" December 4, 1993

The answer, I think, is what it almost always is: that inventors are simply extremely rare. People can have all the incentives, all the materials, all the mechanical skills, and even all the right general notions of how things work. As we’ve seen, even Savery himself was apparently inspired by the same ancient experiment as everyone else who worked... See more

Innovators are usually synthesizers—they synthesize everything they know and add their own personal talents, and out comes something new.