Quotes About Innovation

I used to call it "Roddenberry's Box," and I loved being in it, because the restrictions forced us to be more creative than going into the routine melodramas that we often see in SF television.

The Star Trek conception is a bottle, and into that bottle you can pour different vintages, but you're not allowed to change the shape of the bottle.

For all the insomniacs of the world I want to build a new kind of machine For flying out of the body at night. This will win peace prizes, I know it, But I can't do it myself; I'm exhausted, I need help from the inventors.

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Big business will still leave room for small business.

Infrastructure eventually becomes obsolete, but education perpetuates itself as one smart generation teaches the next. In the United States and Europe, industrialization rarely encouraged education.

An ageing society is a less entrepreneurial one.

Older societies are also less likely to launch businesses. The rate of start-ups in America has been dropping for years and is beginning to rival Europe's less entrepreneurial pace.

Jeffrey Garten's history of globalisation, From Silk to Silicon, tells the story of the last millennium through ten biographies. His book ends with Steve Jobs. It opens with Genghis Khan. The latter's impact was a fitting one with which to begin his story.

For those who still believe our age's disruptions match what happened after 1870, ask yourself which you would first give up, your iPhone or the flush toilet? Laptop or antibiotics? If you have trouble answering those, ponder life without electricity. It is a measure of our solipsism that we take for granted what went before.

The new economy requires consumers with spending power – just as the old one did. Yet much like the farmer who eats his seed corn, Big Data is gobbling up its source of future revenue.

You'd find ideas firing around like kernels in a popcorn machine:

Creativity, after all, does not happen on schedule or on demand. It

Ideas coming in spontaneous, erratic bursts.

we are often unable to stop the idea generation at night;

people with ADHD feel an abiding need—an omnipresent itch—to create something.

Even awake we're dreaming, always creating, always searching for some mud pie to turn into pumpkin apple chiffon.

As far as I can see, many people who don't have ADD are charter members of the Society of the Congenitally Boring. And