Quotes About Innovation

Various magazine articles have predicted nothing less than the disappearance of the book as it now exists, and pictured the library of the future as a sort of monster computer capable of storing and retrieving the contents of books electronically and xerographically.

The Edsel was obviously jinxed, but to say that it was jinxed by its design alone would be an oversimplification, as it would be to say that it was jinxed by an excess of motivational research.

The danger in ingenious hardware is that it distracts attention from education. What good is a wonderful machine if you don't know what to put on it?

They knew all about the automotive casualties that had followed the Second World War—among them Crosley, which had given up altogether, and Kaiser Motors, which, though still alive in 1954, was breathing its last.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

Putain mais quelle fichue imagination je peux avoir ...

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that's better.

I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

Pan marks Flying Down to Rio as the first time full dance numbers were seen on the screen, that is, a complete dance sequence that demanded the viewers' attention from beginning to end. Prior to that, dance had most often been relegated to background scenery or brief interludes or served as backup for vocal numbers.

The one quality that seemingly guaranteed the success of these and so many other numbers is Pan's ability to remain open to a variety of sources and styles. Though it is difficult for any artist to avoid being redundant, Pan, nevertheless, strove to make each dance a complete and unique experience.

The chair had four arm rests, because that's what happens when someone has four arms. Leading

I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments which will make available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

It would be better to have no school at all than the schools we now have. Encouraged, instead of frightened, children could learn several languages before reaching age of four, at that age engaging in the invention of their own languages. Play'd be play instead of being, as now, release of repressed anger.

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.

Things we were going to do are now being done by others. They were, it seems, not in our minds to do (were we or they out of our minds?) but simply ready to enter any open mind, any mind disturbed enough not to have an idea in it.

We, the garden of technology. We, undecidable.

Now we have come to the end of the part about structure. However, it occurs to me to say more about structure.

Growing fast in sawdust

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.