Quotes About Innovation

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.

Para os profissionais liberais, executivos e trabalhadores das empresas, a frase Se você não mudar, morrerá quer dizer que, se não pensarem pela empresa e se reciclarem, serão ultrapassados, perderão sua competência. Se não abrirem as janelas de sua mente para prevenir erros e fazer além do que lhes é exigido, sufocarão o brilho de sua inteligência, deixarão de ser úteis.

Ah, this blasted habit of mine of inventing or deriving words!

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

I wrote code that merely did what it was supposed to do. Simon's solutions were rapid and weird—convoluted, sometimes in a pointless way, often in a way that looked pointless until you saw how elegant it was.

Who wants to make the language of dreams?

Once you get past a certain threshold, everyone's problems are the same: fortifying your island and hiding the heat signature from your fusion reactor.

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

The future belongs to those who choose hope – and those who leverage technology to positively impact what's next for humanity.

Francis Crick, co-winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule, reportedly experimented with LSD while working on the problem. Though he never confirmed the rumors, friends insist that he told them he actually conceived of the double-helix shape during an LSD trip.*2

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans—I would choose—because it contains all the others—the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before…. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

True entrepreneurs work on their business not in their business.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Creativity comes from zeal to do something, generally it is to make some money.

it would have been a rare thing anyhow for an official to come upon an idea that is not provided for in the regulations.

The amateur doesn't appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his experts to know.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.