Everyone knows that innovation is risky, and it’s rare that you arrive at your expected destination. But maybe that destination isn’t so important. Maybe what you should be paying attention to are the little detours you take along the way: It’s down those back roads and byways that the real payoff usually is found. Maybe, in fact, the biggest risk in innovation lies in sticking too closely to your plans.
Danny Hillis, "Stumbling into Brilliance," Harvard Business Review, Aug 2002, harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?value=BR0208&ml_subscriber=true&ml_action=get-article&ml_issueid=BR0208&articleID=R0208L&pageNumber=1.
