Quotes About Innovation

it was a brave man who ate the first oyster

They might have recognized in their strange companion what some of today's middle-aged recognize in the young electronics visionaries... a man who, though part of their world, still had a view that was somehow larger than theirs, that he had firm sight of a future that he somehow knew was better, as well as being a future that was definably different and, most crucially, utterly unlike the world of the present.

Let us beware lest our lack of imagination impoverish the future;

Art and science do not establish themselves despite failure but through it;

Creative attention means really giving our attention to what does not exist.

Fashion exerts more power in science than it does on the shape of hats.

a huddle of robot sheep bleating their terror with mechanical lungs of a hundred horsepower.

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

The charlatan is always the pioneer. From the astrologer came the astronomer, from the alchemist the chemist, from the mesmerist the experimental psychologist. The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.

Había nacido para ser grande, porque era capaz de proyectar lo que otros hombres no se atrevían a llevar a cabo, y de llevar a cabo lo que otros hombres no se atrevían a proyectar. El caso de Lady Sannox

The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.

The idea becomes a machine that makes art.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

Say it new or say it straight.

If you want to get ahead, you have to create your own chances. You have to carve out your own opportunities.

You know, this always happens. Whenever I go away, I always think I'll come back to mountains of exciting posts, with parcels and telegrams and letters full of scintillating news - and I'm always disappointed. In fact, I really think someone should set up a company called holidaypost.com which you would pay to write you loads of exciting letters, just so you had something to look forward to when you got home.

He said when you use your brain, no-one comes near you for ingenuity

If Muhammad won't come to the mountain, the mountain has to cancel all his plans and get on a plane.

You should always be thinking: This is OK…but what else could I be doing?

a whole group of tech whizzes are

I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi.

Sleeping is the height of genius

One becomes weary only of what is new.

Old beliefs do not lead you to new cheese