Quotes About Innovation

The credit for defining the artist as a person who can hold two inconsistent ideas at once goes to F. Scott Fitzgerald. The credit for realizing that that is precisely what all modern men can do—indeed, must be able to do— belongs to Sir Walter Scott.

The man who discovered the power behind that authority was not Gutenberg or Caxton or even Luther. It was Erasmus of Rotterdam.

the version of technology we live with most closely resembles the one that Scots such as James Watt organized and perfected. It rests on certain basic principles that the Scottish Enlightenment enshrined: common sense, experience as our best source of knowledge, and arriving at scientific laws by testing general hypotheses through individual experiment and trial and error.

A new concept had entered the modern consciousness. The idea of power not in a political sense, the ability to command people, but the ability to command nature: the power to alter and use it to create something new, and produce it in greater and larger quantities than ever before.

Just as a picture should provide the spectator with a new view of his world, so should a building.

In a purely technical sense, Sens Cathedral is probably the first Gothic church. When Abelard and Bernard met there in the spring of 1140, they probably did not notice that an architectural revolution was taking place over their heads. Its builders pioneered many of the characteristic elements of the Gothic style, from ribbed interior vaults and a three-part elevation, to the famous pointed Gothic arch for its windows.

Bill Knudsen summed up simply and succinctly. "Progress is only made when fear is overcome by curiosity," he said. "If you are curious enough, you will not have any fear.

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

Mijn stelling is dat alle vooruitgang voortkomt uit beperking.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

To do successful research, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know one thing that isn't known.

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Arthur M. Winfield

I have been grinding away at facts for thirty years; it is time for fancies.

Man shall never reach the moon, for such a quantity of gunpowder would be needed as to gravely injure the crew.

The highest task of intelligence: to imagine a future and then smooth its approach.

One must be absolutely modern.

Il faut être absolument moderne