Quotes About Innovation

In the digital age, don't forget to use your digits!

Bolts of Melody, with more than six hundred unknown poems by Emily Dickinson, took the public by surprise in 1945.

That man was Aldus Manutius the Elder (1450-1515) and I will happily admit I hadn't heard of him until about a year ago, but am now absolutely kicking myself that I never volunteered to have his babies.

That's why they came up with the emoticon, too—the emoticon being the greatest (or most desperate, depending how you look at it) advance in punctuation since the question mark in the reign of Charlemagne.

That's how the universe keeps going, arii. It makes itself new in every generation that discovers it for the first time.

Almost everything people do is artistic. That doesn't make it art.

não tendo alcançado nada caminhando em linha reta, procurou ver se alcançava caminhando por linha curva. Às vezes é o caminho mais curto. (Linha reta e linha curva)

Damn all fixed ideas!

Mankind do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

Fewmets is my new swear word. I'm tired of all the old ones.

Anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

There's no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.

It's a lot simpler to adapt to low gravity, or no atmosphere, or even sandstorms than it is to hustle inhabitants.

When we are writing or painting or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions and opened to a wider world, where colours are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity. These are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin.

Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity.

Someone said, 'It's all been done before.' Yes, I agreed, but we all have to say it in our own voice.

How can we set limits that are creative and not destructive?

We must not take from our children—or ourselves—the truth that is in the world of the imagination.