Quotes About Innovation

Abandoning the flatland ages past, And finding mountains much more to their taste, They toil in labyrinthine caverns, dense With gases that are metal's noble source; 10770 They separate, combine, test, trying to Discover things undreamt of hitherto. By spirit power, subtly, they construct Forms clear and crystalline, without defect; Then in the crystal's eternal silence peering, Perceive what in the upper world is occurring.

Is it Mind that works and creates what's ours?

Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.

Çünkü anlad?m ki, büyük i?leri, mümkün görünmeyeni ba?aran s?rad??? insanlar?n eskiden beri sarho?lar ve deliler oldu?unu ilan etmek gerek.

car j'ai appris que tous les hommes extraordinaires qui ont fait quelque chose de grand, quelque chose qui semblait impossible, ont de tout temps été qualifiés d'ivres et d'insensés.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game

Ihr Schauspiel ist immer neu, weil sie immer neue Zuschauer schafft. Leben ist ihre schönste Erfindung und der Tod ist ihr Kunstgriff, viel Leben zu haben.

Die Natur Ihr Schauspiel ist immer neu, weil sie immer neue Zuschauer schafft. Leben ist ihre schönste Erfindung und der Tod ist ihr Kunstgriff, viel Leben zu haben.

Imitare l'inimitabile è un compito spaventoso

Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte. (More recent poets put a lot of water in the ink.) -- Goethe: Aus Makariens Archiv. Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre. III 18

One of the magical side effects of having a culture of copying is the establishment of trends. People think this is a magical thing. How does it happen? Because it's legal [in the fashion industry] for people to copy one another.

Software is nothing like construction. Software is innovation. Innovation is difficult—if not impossible—to predict.

You can't go faster when you avoid technical excellence.

Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade And do the other things, Not because they are easy, But because they are hard, Because that goal Will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, Because that challenge Is one that we are willing to accept, One we are unwilling to postpone, And one, Which we intend to win. John F. Kennedy

In 1955, amid the great fanfare that accompanied the initial release of the [polio] vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk was asked who owned the patent. He replied, "Well, the people, I would say. Could you patent the sun?

Success is often to be found at the edge of failure

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry, and Porcelaine.

Genius is sorrow's child.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

Anyone who expects to create, be it as a scientist or artist, scholar or writer, needs self-confidence, even bravado. How else can one dare to imagine understanding what no one else has understood, discovering what no one else has discovered? Where does this confidence come from? Fortunately, every young person is blessed with some of it. It is part of human character.

Principle 1: Make the Change Too Small to Fail

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." —George Bernard Shaw