"Keep on the lookout for novel ideas..." - Quote by Thomas Edison
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
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“The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.”
“When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.”
“There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.”
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“Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.”
“Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.”
“Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?”