Watts Humphrey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
-- Watts Humphrey

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Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking.
-- Watts Humphrey

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One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly, that they will not believe the method will work until they see it for themselves.
-- Watts Humphrey

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If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
-- Watts Humphrey

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It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, â€˜We want it now, in our lifetime.â€™ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.
We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.
The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
I said, â€˜Thereâ€™s one idea Iâ€™ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. Itâ€™s Woodrow Wilson.â€™
Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israelâ€™s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization.

Watts Humphrey famous quotes

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