The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.
It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the taking and not in the making photographs... In short, all that should be necessary to get a good picture is to take a good picture.