Quotes About Innovation

Let's stop adding v and just keep going, and try to think of a solution before we become an ironic footnote to salvage tug history, shall we?

Makes of men date, like makes of cars...

Some of my ideas get enlarged almost before I have them.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Change can be good. It just depends on what we make of it.

Why shouldn't it last? We are living in the age of progress, William. Mankind is progressing." To which remark William had always replied with the irritating question, "What to?

Like all creators, he knew well that strange feeling of movement within the spirit, comparable only to the first movement of the child within the womb, which causes the victim to say perhaps with excitement, perhaps with exasperation or exhaustion, "There is a new poem, a new picture, a new symphony coming, heaven help me." The movement had been unusually strong when he first knew about this clock.

To see things in surprising ways, you have to extend yourself a bit.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap." —Cynthia Heimel

Meanwhile, an even stranger and more radical transformation is under way. Having discovered subterranean reserves of energy, humans begin to change the composition of the atmosphere.

If we want everything to remain as it is, everything must change.

Wouldn't it be better, practically and ethically, to focus on what can be done and is being done to save species, rather than to speculate gloomily about a future in which the biosphere is reduced to little plastic vials?

Roth pulled a second glove over the first and grabbed what looked like a video game remote.

if other institutions try to use it, they

Eubaculites carinatus indicated that the group had exhausted its practical possibilities and entered some sort of decadent, Lady Gaga-ish phase.)

more work is accomplished in one day than many diligent scribes could do in a year….

Let's put aside the goal of doing it perfectly, and replace it with the trust that we can do it differently.

They are I-don't-know-it-alls. They are not afraid to look dumb or make mistakes. Because of that, they go places others won't and try things others don't. That is where the new discoveries are lurking. "So

No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

What is dollar value but something to amuse people who have no imagination? People who have money and no imagination follow fashion. People who have imagination and no money fashion styles.

Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built he Titanic.

Ordinary-size people, they don't know: their lives have been rehearsed and rehearsed by every single person who ever lived before them, inventions and improvements and unimportant notions each generation, each year. In 600BC somebody did something that makes your life easier today; in 1217, 1892.

We have, all of us, invented things that others have beat us to: walking upright, a certain sort of sandwich involving avocado and an onion roll, a minty sweet cocktail, ourselves, romantic love, human life.

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.