Quotes About Innovation

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.

That's what it's like when you're creating things. On the one hand, it really seems like you're keeping it all moving on your own, and you can tell yourself that you've got inspiration raining down on you, but ultimately you can't make anything happen on your own. I

I like people who are always doing things that would never have occurred to me at that moment.

We created something a little closer to perfection than ourselves; maybe that's the only way to progress. Let them try to do the same.

Pity they didn't devote a little more ingenuity to staying alive rather than conducting mass slaughter as efficiently as possible.

There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.

It's always difficult when going from one field to another especially when you're the first person to make the jump and when you've had so much success in that first field. I got a lot of pushback but I kept going.

T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.

I want to live in a world created by art, not just decorated with it

Pensa fuori dagli schemi, smonta gli schemi e falli a pezzi

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.

I don't think any novelist is happy being just a novelist. I'm sure you know this. We should be poets. We should be composers and we should be making language do things that the novel won't allow you to do. This is what I've been trying to do for a long time.

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

Something ordinary in the past becomes valuable in the future

if you always do what you have always done, then you will always get what you have always got. Extreme measures are sometimes called for, and these measures sometimes even produce results.

My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

The people who get places in life are the ones who stay ahead of the game.

I understand Tom's got a good business going now." Sheila nodded. "Computers. He's taught me a lot about them. They're not really so bad. Oh, they don't pick up the dirty laundry or do boring case reports or—" she glanced down "—fix rum and Cokes, but they're pretty clever when it comes to things intellectual." She drawled the last for every syllable it was worth.

Whether it's that first mark with a brush on a canvas or pencil to paper, boldly make it and then let yourself free-fall. Art creates art.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Imagination needs to be fed.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.