Quotes About Innovation

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform — (or pause and reflect).

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others.

At the beginning of that interval a type-machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a curiosity, too. But now it is the other way about: the person who doesn't own one is a curiosity.

He worked up his old battles and tricked them out with fresh splendors; also with new terrors, for he added artillery now.

Here they come, a tilting! Five hundred mailed and belted knights on bicycles!

Wenn dein einziges Werkzeug ein Hammer ist, wirst du jedes Problem als Nagel betrachten.

Polished air-tight stove (new and deadly invention)

Der einzige Mensch, der sich vernünftig verhält, ist mein Schneider. Er nimmt jedes mal Maß, wenn er mich sieht, während alle anderen immer wieder die alten Maßstäbe anlegen.

men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises. This

The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

The first thing you want in a new country, is a patent office; then work up your school system; and after that, out with your paper.

had begun to put the mining on a scientific basis as early as I could.

My father was a blacksmith, my uncle was a horse doctor, and I was both, along at first. Then I went over to the great arms factory and learned my real trade; learned all there was to it; learned to make everything; guns, revolvers, cannon, boilers, engines, all sorts of labor-saving machinery.

just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.

Slavery was dead and gone; all men were equal before the law; taxation had been equalized. The telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the typewriter, the sewing machine, and all the thousand willing and handy servants of steam and electricity were working their way into favor. We had a steamboat or two on the Thames, we had steam warships, and the beginnings of a steam commercial marine; I was getting ready to send out an expedition to discover America.

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances.

we made a few bushels of first-rate blasting powder

In these were gathered together the brightest young minds I could find, and I kept agents out raking the country for more, all the time. I was training a crowd of ignorant folk into experts—experts in every sort of handiwork and scientific calling.

It always happens that when a man seizes upon a neglected and important idea, people inflamed with the same notion crop up all around.