Quotes About Innovation

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation

When I want to read a book, I write one.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

When I want to read a good book I write one.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

If we all think alike, no one is thinking.

I am captivated more by dreams of the future then history of the past.

That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.

In the 1770s, when he was in Paris, Benjamin Franklin witnessed the flight of one of the first hot-air balloons. As the balloon soared into the air, someone asked Franklin: "What good is it?" Franklin responded: "What good is a new-born baby?

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forc'd by the occasion.

in 1742, invented an open stove for the better warming of rooms, and at the same time saving fuel, as the fresh air admitted was warmed in entering,

persuaded, therefore, that ere long some ingenious

the rapid progress true Science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon

the freedom to call something into being which did not exist before, which was not given even as an object of cognition or imagination and which therefore, strictly speaking, could not be known.

Not long ago scientists figured out a way to create mathematical constructs of patients' hearts.

We must not forget that the most enduring modifications in toys are never the work of adults, whether they be educators, manufacturers or writers, but are the result of children at play.

What we lack in Government is entrepreneurial ability.

Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it.