Quotes About Innovation

The canons of literary taste as they have hardened in the twentieth century leave little place for Rabelais.

Putting lights in Wrigley Field is like putting aluminum siding on the Sistine Chapel.

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.

try if you can to not stay in the small box of old thinking.

reading their books on electronic gizmos

Years ago when I was still in the field we ad this technique for dealing with problems we weren't exactly sure how to solve. We called it S-W-A-G." "What's that stand for?" "Scientific-Wild-Ass-Guess..

always challenge yourself to try new things and keep learning.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

Among the works of man,

It's too pragmatic for me," Valenti said. "The know-how is good enough for technology, not for science.

Non vale la pena di vivere nulla che non sia un'opera d'immaginazione, sennò il mare sarebbe soltanto acqua salata…»

Le paradoxe de la science est qu'il n'y a qu'une réponse à ses méfaits et à ses périls : encore plus de science.

He switched the gasper off quickly before it burned the toaster and the whole damn table. Too much power. Technology again. Technology was the asshole of science.

This was however NOT the scientist's responsibility. Morally speaking, the fathers of the hydrogen bomb had nothing to do with the latter. They were cracking not ethics, not culture, not our soul, but a scientific and technological problem.

Adivasi societies are not fossilized societies.

We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.

In the past few years, we've been doing amazing stuff with desserts. Pastry chefs have been using herbs and spices in their desserts. So vanilla cake doesn't have to be just vanilla, it can have a little thyme. Or you could have a custard with a little lavender in it, which is just amazing.

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Your creativity has value. You're not wasting your time dreaming.