Quotes About Innovation

Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters.

Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.

The ideas will follow me. When they're off-guard, and ready to be born, I'll turn around and grab them.

There are three phrases that make possible the world of writing about the world of not-yet (you can call it science fiction or speculative fiction; you can call it anything you wish) and they are simple phrases: What if . . . ? If only . . . If this goes on

That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.

Ten years of doing everything wrong suddenly became the right idea, the right scene, the right characters, the right day, the right creative time.

Ray Bradbury

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. If you try to approach a cat and pick it up, hell, it won't let you do it. You've got to say, Well, to hell with you. And the cat says, Wait a minute. He's not behaving the way most humans do. Then the cat follows you out of curiosity: Well, what's wrong with you that you don't love me?

I'm gonna have a T-Shirt made that says 'Stand at the top of the cliff, and jump off, and build your wings on the way down

A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before.

Each of the men I have listed seized a bit of the quicksilver of life, froze it for all time and turned, in the blaze of their creativity, to point at it and cry, Isn't this good! And it was good.

The children guessed, if they did not whisper it, that all science fiction is an attempt to solve problems by pretending to look the other way. In

I been figuring, what to put in. Motion pictures? Radios? Stereoscopic viewers? All those in one place so any man can run his hand over it and smile and say, 'Yes, sir, that's happiness.

Let us remain childlike and not childish in our 20-20 vision, borrowing such telescopes, rockets, or magic carpets as may be needed to hurry us along to miracles of physics as well as dream.

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

I blundered into creativity as blindly as any child learning to walk and see.

He had seen her painted sign by the road: Skin Illustration! Illustration instead of tattoo! Artistic!

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word "intellectual", of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar.

I hate a Roman named Status Quo

No man is as big as his own idea.

Patent-zatvara? zamenio je dugmad i time je ?oveku oduzeto taman ono malo vremena za razmišljanje dok se u obla?i u zoru, u filozofsko doba dana, i stoga melanholino doba dana.

Chi crea non può fare a meno di distruggere.

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow.