Quotes About Innovation

Our society celebrates nothing more than the overcoming of limitation – in sport, in science, in communications, in health. Every invention, every new world record, every new gadget is a sacrament of the deepest human desire of our age – to become free by transcending limitation, and thus, for a moment, believing we can withstand even death.

Creative people have more ideas and interests than any one person can do in a lifetime, and we accumulate the paraphernalia to prove it. (p. 54.)

All great works start with mistake. Ain't no exception in this fact.

To be inventive, to have ideas, is an organic part of being talented.

she can make

She looks at her watch - a real one, with arms. Those digital ones came and went, thank God. When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn't mean you should?

She looks at her watch—a real one, with arms. Those digital ones came and went, thank God. When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn't mean you should?

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn't mean you should?

world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik

Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.

call it chicken salad

Something like a little faucet, I think.

some quality that was there before has been stolen. The scholar is still there, thought Taliesin, but I believe that the poet has gone.

There once was a very great American surgeon named Halsted. He was married to a nurse. He loved her—immeasurably. One day Halsted noticed that his wife's hands were chapped and red when she came back from surgery. And so he invented rubber gloves. For her. It is one of the great love stories in medicine. The difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love. When I met Ana, I knew: I loved her to the point of invention.

I]deas, when implemented, turn into precedents with unpredictable and potentially disturbing consequences.

Before the verb "to electrocute" came to define death by electricity, Edison advocated that the verb be named for his nemesis, that a person who had been electrocuted would have been westinghoused instead. I bet Westinghouse came up with some possible definitions of what it meant to be edisoned himself.

You go Picasso!

If there was a crayon, and I was to put a label on it, I would call it dinosaur skin. -So B. It

To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

I don't know how it all at once came to me to talk a lot, tell jokes, kick up, and suddenly have views. When it was time to have them, there was no telling how I picked them from the air.

But we mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of the intellectuals.

Genius must be the recovery of the powers of childhood by an act of the creative

AM fascinated by the profusion and ingenuity of Jewish ideas on the future of Israel.