Quotes About Innovation

All science is a two-edged sword. It is pure only in the mind, at conception, as an idea, an equation, or just some new way of looking at things. But once it's out there in the world, it becomes whatever the world wants it to be. Germ warfare, nuclear holocaust, or a cure for cancer.

No, make something different from war. Don't allow your enemies to be enemies. Make them something else, because otherwise they have a power over you that they should not have. If you think in the same ways as the past, you will only get new versions of the past. Think differently. That's what I'm saying.

No, make something different from war. Don't allow your enemies to be enemies. Make them something else, because otherwise they have a power over you that they should not have. If you think in the same ways as the past, you will only get new versions of the past. Think differently.

She didn't drop below fifty, and taught that little Fiesta things Ford never intended it to know.

Well, we live in a world that's gone crazy with technology, and some of that technology can be harnessed to do more than it's intended to do.

Genius is the ability to see past the limitations that most of us are faced with, and accomplish the impossible.

Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.

Invention accumulates. If you combine the diesel engine, GPS, and the echo sounder, the opportunities they create are not just added to one another, they are multiplied.

We must build bridges to the future, not the past.

What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?

Remember, inspiration unused is merely entertainment. To get new results, you need to take new actions.

I love learning new techniques.

Art is human. Error is human. Art is error.

At any point along that path, your job as an artist is to push craft to its limits — without being trapped by it. The trap is perfection: unless your work continually generates new and unresolved issues, there's no reason for your next work to be any different from the last.

We do not long remember those artists who followed the rules more diligently than anyone else. We remember those who made the art from which the "rules" inevitably follow.

Art is all about starting again

When your only tool is a hammer, so the saying goes, everything looks like a nail.

Art is human; error is human; ergo, art is error.

We have a language that reflects how we learn to paint, but not how we learn to paint our paintings. How do you describe the [reader to place words here] that changes when craft swells into art?

But while mastering technique is difficult and time-consuming, it's still inherently easier to reach an already defined goal — a "right answer" — than to give form to a new idea. It's easier to paint in the angel's feet to another's master-work than to discover where the angels live within yourself.

Oglethorpe University,

But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.