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Quotes About Innovation

Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy.
~ Sam Kean
Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth.
~ Jens Martin Skibsted
We've been tinkering with nature for tens of thousands of years - look at a poodle! So we've created all sorts of organisms and biological things that wouldn't be here were it not for us.
~ Frances Arnold
I wasn't much into girlfriends. I was too busy tinkering in the garage.
~ Woody Norris
I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.
~ David Hanson
If you build a Model T and you can see the Camry, you don't spend time tinkering with the T; you go straight to the next thing. Once you build the Camry, you can see the Ferrari, so you go straight to that.
~ Graham Hawkes
I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
~ Giles Foden
'Humans of New York' did not result from a flash on inspiration. It grew from five years of experimenting, tinkering, and messing up.
~ Brandon Stanton
As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering.
~ Dean Kamen
As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery.
~ Mike Schultz
Building and tinkering were such a huge part of our childhood, whether we were trying to entertain ourselves as kids, helping our parents out on the ranch, or getting creative with school projects.
~ Drew Scott
You're always trying to get better. You're always tinkering. You're always learning new things.
~ Kyle Korver
At heart, I am still the guy who loves tinkering with machines and writing code.
~ Ritesh Agarwal
Tinkering with, and building the products Robinhood ships brings me joy.
~ Baiju Bhatt
You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that are a little off the beaten track.
~ Robin Sloan
From working in my mum's tiny chemist shop to my experience building large businesses, I have seen how we should support free enterprise and innovation to ensure Britain has a stronger future.
~ Rishi Sunak
It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.
~ Carroll Shelby
Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.
~ Ginni Rometty
Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.
~ Johnny Thunders
There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter.
~ Lennart Nilsson
The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
~ Gustav Heinemann
Looking back fondly, I think the first gig we did with the electronic stuff was really exciting because it was in this tiny club, like an Elizabethan building with beams.
~ Grace Chatto
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
~ Nathan Myhrvold
I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!'
~ Joss Whedon