Reinvention Gifts

'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.'

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

"Young Frankenstein"

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

"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.

Though he created more than 300 products from peanuts, George Washington Carver was unable to change even one of them back into a peanut.

"You created a robot to do your homework for you? Apparently, laziness is the mother of invention."

"What's a patent?"

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

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

Thinking Gears

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

"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."

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"Waiting for the vaccine launch."

'I told you it would be useful.'

"Actually, I'm hoping what I'm going to be when I grow up hasn't been invented yet."

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

The first car accident.

' A good idea '

The Map of the human brain

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!"

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

'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.