Quotes About Innovation

Under the vaulted arch of its white iron-and-glass roof it was as if IKEA had been hired to refit St. Pancras station. If Thomas the Tank Engine had been Swedish, his living room would have looked just the same.

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Samuel Pierpont Langley, chief astronomer of Pittsburgh's Allegheny Observatory, who innovated the sale of time

I highly recommend enforced boredom as a way to develop your imagination. But don't take my advice; listen to Neil Young. He said it best: "There's a lot to learn for wasting time.

I try not to jump to conclusions about anything I feel I've seen or heard before. I try not to write off music my kids play me as "throwback" even if it closely resembles something that I thought was new when I was a kid. Sure, I want to put on the seventies' English band the Jam and say, See! Your new little punk bands are just shiny versions of this! But I'd be wrong. To diminish the new as nothing more than a rehash is a mistake.

You can get in way more trouble with a good idea than a bad idea, because you forget that the good idea has limits.

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

I'm always throwing out ideas, so it's not creativity, it's just volume.

The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

accountants, for example, have probably had more impact on the world in the last fifteen years than anyone we usually consider to be creative.

The Double Cross idea had always been based on lateral thinking without boundaries, a willingness to contemplate plans that others would dismiss as unworkable or, frankly, barmy.

We have the scanners, we have MaherSter. Now, you stop poling your horses and pray for the wicked."

Until the notion of Helmet-Assisted Life catches on with more people, you may be seen as a threat if you wear a helmet during moments of intimacy. Yet it might also be true that relaxed intimacy cannot occur unless the head is fully protected.

Zuckerberg had gotten lucky—in another world, the twins never would have had to approach him for coding help. In any event, Tyler and Cameron didn't believe they were on the earth to exist; they were here to create, to build.

Silicon Valley was a town made up of engineers who thought in frameworks, decision trees, and game theory.

He felt there had to be 'something'. He felt human beings must create, each in their own way, and that it was only by the application of vision, only by making things, that we could transform the negative 'nothing'.

I'd say, 'Trane, man, why are you doing that, beating on your chest and howling in the microphone?'" Ali remembered in an interview. "He'd say, 'Man, I can't find nothing else to play on the horn.' He exhausted the saxophone. He couldn't find nothing else to play … he ran out of horn.

must be prepared to think outside the box,

eliminating it would be a big step backward.

firms would do what they could to stay away.

Don recommended that we wait and see what private-sector solutions might emerge,

Sometimes it is time to think the unthinkable,

I think we have to be flexible and creative in the face of what really are extraordinary challenges.