Quotes About Innovation

Billa' was inspired by Hindi hit 'Don.'

Hocuspocus religions and archaic weapons are no substitute for a good blaster at your side

If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words--food and exercise.

it's not the droid we're expecting, is it?

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

The tendency of mechanical progress is to make your environment safe and soft; and yet you are striving to keep yourself brave and hard...So in the last analysis the champion of progress is also the champion of anachronisms.

There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

That's the way we're going nowadays. Everything slick and streamlined, everything made out of something else.

The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.

Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

And in all of us there is at least a tinge of that habit of mind. In every country in the world the large army of scientists and technicians, with the rest of us panting at their heels, is marching along the road of 'progress' with the blind persistence of a column of ants.

A man who would write the same book twice could not even write it once.

What writers, artists, scientists and philosophers say today is indicative of future rather than current developments

A machine evolves by becoming more efficient, that is, more foolproof; hence the objective of mechanical progress is a foolproof world—which may or may not mean a world inhabited by fools.

In a world where everything could be done by machinery, everything would be done by machinery.

The problem came down to this: Americans, who had invented the modern assembly line, the skyscraper, the airplane, and the integrated circuit, no longer believed in the future.

The creation of virtual worlds had taken the place of advances in the physical world. "You can say the whole Internet has something very escapist to it

If ever there had been a place to begin a religion, it was Los Angeles in the first half of the twentieth century.

It has seemed to me that if I had the genius to found the jet propulsion field in the US, and found a multimillion dollar corporation and a world renowned research laboratory, then I should also be able to apply this genius in the magical field.

Jack Parsons was just such a figure, living on the cusp between an old world in which the very idea of space travel was a scientific absurdity and a new world in which it would become scientific fact.

Parsons' story reassures us that at the heart of all scientific advances is the imagination—that what we perceive as perverse eccentricities can be the key to important breakthroughs.