Quotes About Pioneering

Every great philosophical shift in history began with a single bold idea.

Así es. —La joven miró los contenedores con orgullo—. Director, está usted viendo las primeras muestras de antimateria del mundo.

Something very rare in this day and age is to see performers do something that has never been done before.

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

she opened the door! nearly six feet tall, and I . . . wanted to found a new country—

Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.

I had no idea that no one else would do it.

Chris Grabenstein

Christopher Columbus

qualunque cosa noi facciamo, kertész l'ha fatto prima.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

In the early 1970s, I headed to graduate school at the University of Utah and joined the pioneering program in computer graphics because I realized that's where I could combine my interests in art and computer science.

My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.

Homo Sapiens is a frontier creature. It is what we do; it defines what we are. This has been true from our very beginnings. It is the core reason our progenitors wandered forth from the first primordial valleys in search of more room, better hunting, or more fertile soil.

The most valuable thing in culture is to find something first - so everyone is always looking.

Plus, if you're a copycat, you can never keep up. You're always in a passive position. You never lead; you always follow. You give birth to something that's already behind the times—just a knockoff, an inferior version of the original. That's no way to live.

A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society.

To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.

My parents were the only people to go to South Africa from Australia in a single engine plane... the two of them, no radio... you had to fly down low to see the street signs to know which city you were in... most people couldn't speak English.

I did marathons long before they were popular, when people running round the streets were looked at oddly.

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.