Quotes About Innovation

Sex was a reasonable alternative to burning fossil fuels. Maybe she should teach it in class. Hey, kids, there is solar energy, geothermal energy, wind energy and sex. Ask your parents about that one.

Art is not supposed to repeat what you already know. It is supposed to ask questions.

Art is about experimenting and ideas, but it is also about excellence and exclusion. In a society where everyone is looking for a little distinction, it's an intoxicating combination.

I like liars. Liars care enough to make the world a more interesting place than it actually is.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

Think BIG right now- you can always make it smaller later!

The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

Design is thinking made visible.

California's like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me.

We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.

Some say it's no coincidence that the question mark is an inverted plow, breaking up the hard soil of old beliefs and preparing for the new growth.

only through new words might new worlds be called into order

Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.

You think it, I ink it.

The mother of the useful arts is necessity, that of the fine arts is luxury; for father the former have intellect, the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

The future will be envisioned and built collaboratively—or not at all.

It is far too easy to be critical. It is far harder to have a better idea.

Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.

There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.

We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.