Quotes About Innovation

I am now obsessed with the technology of the body. I think it's the most technologically literate thing that we have.

To want to be ahead, and to celebrate and mythify this endeavor, is indeed one of the most powerful impulses of modernity itself.

it was Manutius who invented italics, introduced the semicolon and gave the comma its distinctive hooked shape. As

A man who has the ability to generate a new word and to inject it into the bloodstream of the language seems to me only a little lower than the Creator of light and darkness. If you write a book, you may be fortunate enough to be read for a while, until other, better books come along and take its place; but to produce a new word is to approach immortality.

Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.

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Anyone can have original style," he countered. "And yet no one truly does. We're influenced by those who came before us, beginning with the painters thousands of years ago who imitated nature.

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Write immediately, yes! But as artist! Write with the task in mind—always trying to say the thing in the best way you can. The how! Not the what!

he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work.

You might as well expect of Brancusi that he give us his masterpieces in fried bread crumbs or apple sauce. Can't be done.

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

Art begins with resistance—at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

Just as photography in the past freed painting from its concern for a certain sort of accuracy, so the phonograph will eventually no doubt rid the novel of the kind of dialogue which is drawn from the life and which realists take so much pride in.

The things that soonest appear out of date are those that at first strike us as most modern.

No hay problemas, solo soluciones.

Men dream things — because men must have that which is beyond human reckoning to satisfy the need for comfort and a hedge against fear.

But—a spaceship! It was something that had so long been laughed to scorn. When men had failed to go farther into space after the initial excitement of the moon landings, space flight had become a matter for jeers.

these new means always end up complicating things instead of making them easier? It was the same with medicine. Doctors had lost their "clinical eye" and relied only on test results. Meanwhile the police were losing their intuition and passively accepting scientific findings.

The power of natural selection is beyond dispute, but this power has limits. Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. And calling the change that creates them random is just another way of admitting our ignorance about it.

Innovation is combinatorial. It combines old things to make the new.