Quotes About Innovation

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

Whoever said nothing is impossible obviously hasn't tried nailing Jell-O to a tree.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

He liked the bow, where it was quiet. If he looked over the edge of the deck, he could just see the bulbous front of the ship where it met the water. For centuries, the bows of ships had been like knives. But not any longer. Wilson pondered the change until he understood. A bulbous prow would raise the bow. This would make the ship more efficient by reducing the impact of the bow-wave. He wondered about the man whose insight it was, and if he'd gotten credit for it.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

And now for something completely different . . .

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk … In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

This," said Angel to Louis, "is the best fucking idea anyone ever had since, like, Columbus bought a boat." The two men, along with Parker, were sitting

They wanted eternal life; he gave them perpetual motion. It comes to the same thing, for such a race.

Suppose a branch of our old family tree—a branch that seemed doomed to wither—had in fact not died out but survived, survived by learning arts just as new to the world but utterly different from the tool-making and fire-building of its grosser cousins, us. Suppose that instead they had learned concealment, smallification, disappearance, and some way to blind the eyes of beholders.