Quotes About Innovation

Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest in a given period, we can form a fairly accurate impression of the chief preoccupations of society at that time and the points at which the boundaries of human endeavour are being advanced.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.

the increasing use of technology in the classroom will transform the role of educators allowing the educational process to become ever more student centered.

Before investing in devices, it is important to first define the educational vision and goals for digital learning.

Path's should be laid where people walk, instead of walking where paths are laid.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

For an organization consisting mainly of engineers, whiteboards served as the corporate equivalent of the water cooler.

The tombstone of coinage, arguably the most important measure in history, could read: Born Lydia, Anatolia, 7th century B.C. Died Washington, D.C., 20th century A.D.

Jefferson offered a simpler plan: Adopt the Spanish dollar. But with a twist. Rather than splitting it into eighths and sixteenths or twelfths and twentieths, Jefferson wanted to take the radical step of dividing the coin by tenths, hundredths, and thousandths—decimal fractions. It was a thing no other nation in the world had ever entirely achieved, not with coins or any other measure.

It is deeply ironic that while America was hemming and hawing over whether to go metric on account of its shrinking place in world trade, a U.S. innovation sized in customary feet was becoming the most important measure of capacity ever to hit the global market.

containerization has had a greater impact on global trade than all GATT talks combined.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. It is worth comparing this famous text of Bakunin's with one of Picasso's most famous remarks about his own art. 'A painting', he said, 'is a sum of destructions.

been disturbed. This is why Rembrandt or Vermeer or Poussin or Chardin or Goya or Turner had no followers but only superficial imitators.

If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.

He didn't understand how this "Microsoft Corporation" could have become so dominant in die andere Zeit. He found their products to be annoying, and entirely unreliable.

It also meant, however, that they couldn't drive without a seat belt, smoke in public spaces, or "cross a public roadway while immersed in a virtual reality." Not that much of that sort of thing went on just yet, anyway. Black

Stamp was also innovative about his assembly line, setting up his factory in Chandler so that the satellites were built horizontally instead of vertically. That meant the assemblers could work at waist level, whereas on military satellites, the technicians stood on ladders and leaned over. He trained Lockheed Martin in the new technique, then later bragged about it to his friends at Khrunichev in Moscow, only to be told, "We've done it that way for forty years.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2 000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

When we want things to stay the same, we'll always wind up playing catch-up. Better to go with the flow.