Quotes About Innovation

we brought the wires to the ground at the chapel, and then brought them under the ground to the platform, and hid the batteries there.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus

Cahill intended the Telharmonium to transmit music through phone lines to paying subscribers, but the venture failed.

For me to have sat around calling the crazy stuff crazy would have been the most wasteful, unimaginative thing I could have done. There were so many much better things to do with it.

Our newness lies only in parts rearranged.

despite rational objections, technology's failure is overrun by the onslaught of myth.

A KEY WORD*** Imagined

The wheel… is an extension of the foot. The book… is an extension of the eye… Clothing, an extension of the skin… Electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system.

Our permanent address is tommorrow.

if it works it's obsolete

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.

Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up.

In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff made this statement: "We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

Innumerable confusions and a profound feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transitions. Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools—with yesterday's concepts.

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition.

The past went a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear-view mirror.

Our time is a time to cross barriers, for erasing old categories — for probing around. When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised, put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result

Education must shift from instruction, from imposing of stencils, to discovery—to probing and exploration and to the recognition of the language of forms.

A rule for success in today's wild new economic world is this: use the most innovative technologies to deliver the most primal products and services.

After many ponderous experiments the first crematorium was opened in December 1920 in Petrograd. It could manage barely 120 bodies a month, and, in February 1921, cremated itself when the wooden roof caught fire.