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		There's the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn't been a theoretical exercise. It's been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we've learned an awful lot from.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jorgen Vig Knudstorp 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edmund Phelps 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabe Newell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				B. Kevin Turner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Baba Kalyani 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Marc Andreesen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ted Shackelford 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		That's a term that I really like - 'permissionless innovation' - because anybody who has an idea and has a solution can tap into or can leverage the Bitcoin blockchain. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barry Silbert 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and the answer is that there's opportunity for innovation online - not only innovation in storytelling, but also innovation in how you interact with your audience and that is very fulfilling to me personally. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Felicia Day 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nathan Myhrvold 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Mandrell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damian Marley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The biggest challenge is that when people look at low price point products, they essentially invest less money in development, innovation, and new technology. And in order to innovate at a lower price point, and make sustainability attainable to the masses, you have to invest more. But that's counterintuitive for a lot of businesses. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yves Behar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Neil Strauss 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's incredible. Twenty-three minutes on the air, and I've got to shoot for twelve, fifteen hours a day. What the hell's that? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Chevy Chase 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn't been a theoretical exercise. It's been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we've learned an awful lot from. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jorgen Vig Knudstorp