Robert Noyce famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?
-- Robert Noyce

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Don't be encumbered by history, just go out and do something wonderful.
-- Robert Noyce

#Inspiring #Moving #Heart
If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.
-- Robert Noyce

#Business #Organization #Ethics
Optimism is an essential ingredient for innovation,
-- Robert Noyce

#Optimism #Innovation #Ingredients
Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to spend your energy catching up.
-- Robert Noyce

#Business #Innovation #Next
Start with a growing market. Swim in a stream that becomes a river and ultimately an ocean. Be a leader in that market, not a follower, and constantly build the best products possible.
-- Robert Noyce

#Ocean #Rivers #Leader
From the beginning at Intel, we planned on being big.
-- Robert Noyce

#Bigs

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look ready for Anything.
The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
Iâ€™m always about optimism and exuberance. Itâ€™s what I feel about fashion.
Optimism is the parent of despair, while pessimism allows the mind to accustom itself to the inevitable disappointments of human existence by degrees, just as some drugs induce a state of tolerance. Pessimists, moreover, have the better sense of humour, for they have a livelier apprehension of pretension and absurdity. In a meritocracy, furthermore, those who fail must either indulge in elaborate mental contortions to disguise reality from themselves or sink into a deep melancholy.
It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.
To be young and aware is to know youâ€™re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to know that we can reimagine the world, rebuild our cities, redesign our lives, retool our factories, distribute innovation and creativity and all live in a world that is not only better than the alternative, but much better than the world we have now.

Robert Noyce famous quotes

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