Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.
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Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.
There is a great difference between discoveries and inventions. With discoveries, one can always be skeptical, and many surprises can take place. In the case of inventions, surprises can really only occur for people who have not had anything to do with it.
Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.
An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.
Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.
Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.
But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.
Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.