Historical Innovation Pillows

'It needs brakes.'

'The wheel was great, but what have you done for me lately?'

The Department of Really Stupid Ideas: 'Most people think they just appear out of thin air! But the truth is, there's a great deal of very hard work involved!'

'Williams, we're not used to receiving such excellent ideas as these, so we'd like to tone them down a bit.'

"My older self travels back just to remind me to put the cap back on this pen?"

The Future: "Sorry, but I have to show you an ad now."

"The leadership team wants a catchy acronym for a new social media app they're calling Functional Applied Relationship Tracker. Any suggestions?"

'Let's not go by the book.'

'Dr.Sall Thompson got so excited over the new spring design she took a quantum leap!'

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Valuable business advice from some famous disruptive technologies.

'I've decided to centralize my operations. Everything will be in my ipad.'

"What's a patent?"

'We've financed three more startups for no fathomable reason.'

"Waiting for the vaccine launch."

"When I grow up, I'm writing the Great American App."

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"Technology isn't making me smarter. It's allowing me to be dumb, faster."

"Good" "Bad" "Work on it" "Keep working - maybe it's not as bad as you think it is" "Put it to a committee" "Give up" "Make it worse" "Make it better" "Still a bad idea" "Overthink it" "Throw yourself into a pit of wild badgers" "Throw it away" "Call it done" "Sigh."

"There's smart phones and smart cars, so why can't there be smart rooms that clean themselves?"

' A good idea '

"Boss, the AI is actually smarter than all of us! It read our business forecast, jumped up and ran out laughing!"

ACME INDUSTRIES NEW PRODUCTS DIVISION, 'The best part is, it can repossess itself!'

"Sorry, we've found an app that's better at being you than you!"

The Map of the human brain

'It's not easy being ahead of your time.'

'Smith, we need more creativity. You have to learn to think outside the box.'

What can I do? He says it's his thinking cap.

"I don’t know what your invention’s called, but it’s really irritating."

"I just love the way you're so endlessly inventive in the bedroom."

Employee won't think about work outside of box

'That's about it so far, Son.'

Robotic Man

"Any questions?"

"Dammit, Johnson. You've got to start thinking outside of the box."