Research And Development Quotes

• Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.

  Akio Morita

  Running, Mean, Long

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 156), 1986.

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• Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn.

  Mitt Romney

  Creativity, Corn, Eating

  "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt". www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.

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• Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.

  Robert Stacy McCain

  Mind, Devil, Idle

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• If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  "How James Dyson Makes the Ordinary Extraordinary". Interview with Shoshana Berger, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.

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• The old rules may say we can’t protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we’ve always used new technologies - we’ve used science; we’ve used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.

  Barack Obama

  Technology, Discovery, America

  Barack Obama's speech on Climate Change at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Creating, Space

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• I'll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders. We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.

  Bill Nye

  Discovery, Years, Empowering

  Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.4, St. Martin's Press

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• We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. Rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Jobs, Childhood

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.

  Alan Shepard

  Thinking, Design, Training

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• Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Medical, Reason, Huge

  "Health concentrates on achieving more cures for less outlay" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2012.

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• If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas... Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy... Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer's... Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Alzheimer's, Race

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Community, Want, Doe

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• Most of them benefit businesses, things like research and development tax credits. But people will also benefit, too, from things like - the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit have been made permanent. They predominantly help lower-income families.

  Susan Davis

  Children, People, Income

  "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

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• There's not much value to us attacking Chinese systems. We might take a few computers offline. We might take a factory offline. We might steal secrets from a university research programs, and even something high-tech. But how much more does the United States spend on research and development than China does?

  Edward Snowden

  Secret, Chinese, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Wars results in immediate deaths and destruction, but the environmental consequences can last hundreds, often thousands of years. And it is not just war itself that undermines our life support system, but also the research and development, military exercises and general preparations for battle that are carried out on a daily basis in most parts of the world. The majority of this pre-war activity takes place without the benefit of civilian scrutiny and therefore we are unaware of some of what is being done to our environment in the name of 'security.

  Rosalie Bertell

  Military, War, Exercise

  Rosalie Bertell (2001). “Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War”, p.2, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• We need to give the private sector many more powerful incentives to do research and development, to bring ideas and new discoveries to market in Canada, and commercialize them here, and stay here through successive stages of growth. But they can only do it with better government policies that give them more powerful incentive.

  Chris Alexander

  Powerful, Government, Discovery

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by in the last sixty seconds. Luckily for us, our planet-mates--the fantastic meshwork of plants, animals, and microbes--have been patiently perfecting their wares since March, an incredible 3.8 billion years since the first bacteria. ...After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.

  Janine Benyus

  New Year, Nature, Animal

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• The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

  Daniel Goleman

  Impact, Environmental, Use

  "How Daniel Goleman Is Changing Our Ideas About Living Green". Interview with Aimee Lee Ball, www.oprah.com. April, 2009.

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• The fact that used cars is our largest category is a good example. We would not have sat in a conference room and said, "Hey, how about used cars?" So what can be learned that is extensible to other companies is to ask what are your customers doing with your products that maybe you didn't anticipate that they would do? How do you think of your customers as your research and development lab, as opposed to having an R&D lab at headquarters?

  Meg Whitman

  Business, Thinking, Car

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• Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

  Alison Gopnik

  Baby, Children, Marketing

  "We All Start Out As Scientists, But Some of Us Forget" by Chris Mooney, Indre Viskontas, www.motherjones.com. November 8, 2013.

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• US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Territory, Internet

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Up North, Apples

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.58, Prabhat Prakashan

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• While American taxes pay for much of the research and development that goes into creating the new, life-saving drugs, American consumers continue to subsidize the cost of the drugs for consumers across the world.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Creating, Drug, New Life

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• Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.

  Ernest Istook

  Children, Math, Technology

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• Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.

  Judith Hill

  Cancer, Passion, Fighting

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.judithhill.com.

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