Quotes About Innovation

Mark Twain said that Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before.

inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California).

Miles Davis saying, "Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

New is life.

Has been done. Can be done. Must be done...

If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be put on a T-shirt. Actually I'd like to write only on T-shirts. Actually, I'd like to write whole novels on T-shirts. So you guys could say, 'I'm wearing chapter 8 of Lestat's new book, that's my favorite; oh I see you're wearing chapter 6-

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.

The young reinvent the universe," he said. "And they give the new universe to us as their gift.

If you don't see something that you like to read, but cannot find it. Write it and make it exist.

You make life when you play," I said. "You create something from nothing. You make something good happen.

Write the book you want to read

True evil in this world is done by those with no imagination.

Twist the poetry as you will.

Our biggest mistake worldwide is our insistence on perceiving every new development as a culmination or a climax. The great "at last" or "inth degree." A constitutional fatalism continuously adjusts itself to the ever-changing present. A pervasive alarmism greets every advance. For two thousand years we have been getting "out of hand.

This world of the imagination is fancy free and violently opposed to common sense.

Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.

What can an artist use but materials, such as they are? What can he light but the short string of his gut, and when that's burnt out, any muck ready to hand?

The opening chapter was the book's unique selling point, the singular idea that had carried Darcy through last November, and Coleman had just come up with it off the top of his head.

I've always thought that science and fiction writing have a lot in common because they're both about modeling reality.

Necessity is the mother of invention

The guy walking past was wearing a shit five sizes too big (innovated by gangbangers to hide guns in their waistbands), shorts down below his knees (innovated by surfers to keep their thighs from getting sunburned), and oversized shoes (innovated by skaters to save their feet from injury).

Paradigmatica Autorevolezza Extranumerica

The Rusties had more than one dream ..... After the first crude city killers were invented... they were redesigned to send people into space. Death and hope in one machine