Quotes About Innovation

Maybe it was always that way, discoveries happened because they needed to happen.

Change is good, but sometimes leaving things the way they've always been is better.

The difference between being smart and being really smart is looking at things in a way no one would ever expect.

Good fucking Christ. What is this, an iPhone?" He

Creative thinking, working with your mind, that's my number-one prescription for longevity. If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

TOGETHER WE'LL SURPRISE THE WORLD!

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

The imagination is ceaselessly imagining and enriching itself with new images. It is this wealth of imagined being that I should like to explore.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

L'imagination est une force première. Elle doit naître dans la solitude de l'être imaginant.

Par l'imagination nous abandonnons le cours ordinaire des choses. Percevoir et imaginer sont aussi antithétiques que présence et absence. Imaginer c'est s'absenter, c'est s'élancer vers une vie nouvelle.

Images discovered by men evolve slowly, painfully; hence Jacques Bousquet's profound remark: A new image costs humanity as much labor as a new characteristic costs a plant.

Most jobs I've had have been variations on hunter-gatherer and farmer. I was one of the first to say Hey, if we grow our own food, we won't have to hunt it down all the time. Mostly, I was just tired of moving around constantly, but you have to admit it was a pretty good idea.)

Loading new software into new computers and using it for the first time was like playing Russian roulette. It demanded and got a lot of respect.

without the likes of him we would not have made it to the Moon.

You have to know your past if you want to create a future.

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.

My rule is never save bits. They get in the way, and you don't think of anything new. Put 'em in. Make a big mess.

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.

Designer of information superhighways need to take the occasional stroll down memory lane.

We stand at the gates of an important epoch, a time of ferment, when spirit moves forward in a leap, transcends its previous shape and takes on a new one..... A new phase of the spirit is preparing itself. Philosophy especially has to welcome its appearance and acknowledge it, while others, who oppose it impotently, cling the past.

If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?