Quotes About Innovation

You can't wreck anything. You only make things great.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.

Today, without its exotic carapace, the exterior is a reddish brick within which the arches and buttresses that made such a feat of engineering possible are clearly visible. They have their own beauty; through such structural expertise the Pantheon has been in constant use for 1,875 years.

a noted academic had said at a lecture last year. The dawning of a new age. There was always a new age dawning.

Fine, make beds, but find a way to keep using your head.

Who's going to take care of all those old white people? Where are new businesses going to come from?" Bob

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]

American technology was now driving military strategy, rather than the other way around.

ornery enough that they will not stay where the rule was laid down. In that I believe you will find the greatest hope for America's future. —William S. Knudsen

the commercial stage represents the greatest change from the past.

Far more than Thomas Aquinas or even Bacon, Ockham is the true forerunner of the modern era.

that famous motto that sits above Christopher Wren's tomb at Westminster Abbey... "If you seek his monument, look around you" - meaning London, 17th Century London. I think it's a motto that very much applies to the Scottish contribution to the modern World: that if you seek their monument, the Scots' monument, look around you.

This posed a dilemma, which Bill Knudsen summed up simply and succinctly. "Progress is only made when fear is overcome by curiosity," he said.

He is the founder of Western technology as an intellectual discipline—one might even say as a passion. He was Archimedes of Syracuse.