Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

Customers buy 1/4 holes, not 1/4 bits.

Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.

Ideas are useless unless used.

A powerful force drives the world toward a converging commonality, and that force is technology. … Almost everyone everywhere wants all the things they have heard about, seen, or experienced via the new technologies.

Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.

You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging