Quotes About Innovation

expiring assets.[3] Your knowledge becomes out of date as new techniques, languages, and environments are developed.

The process of learning will expand your thinking, opening you to new possibilities and new ways of doing things.

The cross-pollination of ideas is important; try to apply the lessons you've learned to your current project.

There is no such thing as a best solution, be it a tool, a language, or an operating system.

Don't Think Outside the Box—Find the Box

Like the craftsman, expect to add to your toolbox regularly. Always be on the lookout for better ways of doing things.

Just as woodworkers sometimes build jigs to guide the construction of complex pieces, programmers can write code that itself writes code.

we work daily within our teams to advocate our ideas, modify existing practices, and suggest new ones.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it's the only one you have. • Emil-Auguste Chartier, Propos sur la religion, 1938

Show them a glimpse of the future and you'll get them to rally around.

Further, the devices being implanted now are different from the ones used even a decade ago. This means that all decisions about how early to implant children are based on speculation rather than experience.

There is no such thing as reproduction, only acts of production.

The amount of improvement that has occurred in computer technology in the past half century is truly staggering and unprecedented in other industries. ... If cars had improved at this rate in the same time period, a Rolls Royce would now cost 10 dollars and get a billion miles per gallon. (Unfortunately, it would probably also have a 200-page manual telling how to open the door.)

Very few institutions thrive when they are left solely to "professionals," people who have made it their life's work to master a given domain of culture.

Human creativity, then, images God's creativity when it emerges from a lively, loving community of persons and, perhaps more important, when it participates in unlocking the full potential of what has gone before and creating possibilities for what will come later.

For almost all of human history, tools were quite limited. They weren't everywhere; they were in specific places. Tools were in the field (agricultural tools) or in the kitchen (cooking tools) or in the toolshed (work tools). And while tools helped us do our work, they didn't work on their own. The dream of a tool that would work by itself was strictly the stuff of magic or fantasy—the sorcerer's apprentice's dream of a broom that would clean up by itself.

Creativity is the only viable source of change.

I actually believe the deepest form of power is creation, and that when power takes the form of coercion and violence, that is actually a diminishment and distortion of what it was meant to be.

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Andy Griffiths

a vegetable vaporiser

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For some odd reason, Compact Discs and Digital Video Discs are spelled as discs, not disks.

I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses.