Quotes About Innovation

The people who live in any generation do much, he realized, either to create or to solve the problems for the people who come in the generations later.

Therefore, I urge all men to be in the front rank of progress and not to stand still, lest they be left behind.

No one who has ever done anything worth doing has gone uncriticized.

Don't think of yourself as a surrogate mule, think of yourself as an entrepreneur of the physical.

No worthy problem is ever solved in the plane of its original conception.

So say you are charged with, you and some of your colleagues, lifting a heavy dead whale carcass onto a flatbed.

I noticed something: if I put a theme park in a story, my prose improved.

American creative energy has always teetered on the brink of insanity.

There is another thing to consider: The best product does not always win; the easiest-to-decide-on product wins. I believe that this is the biggest marketing breakthrough in the last several decades.

The product that wins is not always the "best" product. It's the product that makes the product decisions smooth, easy, fun, and fast.

El error es el punto de partida de la creación.

In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.

La vie ne connaît pas la réversibilité. Mais si elle n'admet pas le rétablissement, la vie admet des réparations qui sont vraiment des innovations physiologiques. La réduction plus ou moins grande de ces possibilités d'innovation mesure la gravité de la maladie. Quant à la santé, au sens absolu, elle n'est pas autre chose que l'indétermination initiale de la capacité d'institution de nouvelles normes biologiques.

You came to France to find out about our methods, and you will have observed that we don't have any.

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

The way to resume is to resume. If we knew everything ahead of time, all would be dictation not creation.

Cubism is a part of the daily life in Spain, it is in Spanish architecture. The architecture of other countries always follows the line of the landscape . . . but Spanish architecture always cuts the lines of the landscape.

Sure, she said, as Pablo once remarked, when you make a thing, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly, but those that do it after you they don't have to worry about making it and they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when the others make it.

No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who also are creating their own time refuse to accept.

Paris was where the twentieth century was.

Babbage's Three Laws of Difference Engines First Law: A difference engine must have at least six cogs. Second Law: A difference engine must be able to operate a loom. Third law: A difference engine must be able to kill a man, should the mood so take it.

Climate change is real, and we need to work on a comprehensive approach. We eliminated sulfur dioxide in the air, and got rid of acid rain. We got rid of lead in gasoline. You can achieve these things when the private and public sectors work together.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.