One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.
Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.
Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.
Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career.
Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.
To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.
My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has been a vital counterbalance in my life.
Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.