Quotes About Innovation

It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

Create art. Not just an art, but thermo fucking nuclear art.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

Creativity is a continual surprise.

I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

Jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.

Science ran too far ahead of us too quickly, and the people got lost in a mechanical wilderness, like children making over pretty things, gadgets, helicopters, rockets; emphasizing the wrong items, emphasizing machines instead of how to run the machines.

Don't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

Surprise is where creativity comes in.

Life is trying things to see if they work.