Quotes About Innovation

Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows

How many chances do you get to do something new?

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

The direction in which the culture of an age develops is, humanly speaking, chosen by a few exceptionally intelligent men. The popular authors then pick up some of the main ideas, usually distorting and diluting them considerably, and finally fifty years or a century later the general viewpoint has seeped down to the whole populace.

Two computer nerds in a pod.

You can't break eggs without making an omelet, said Butler sententiously.

Worlds are there to be conquered." I was light but I meant what I said. We were living at a time when for the adventurous and imaginative man anything was possible. Bonaparte had inspired, no doubt in a bad way, an entire generation.

A scientist can hardly encounter anything more desirable than, just as a work is completed, to have its foundation give way.

there'll always be people who are afraid of living and afraid of dying. And there are always more of them than there are risk-takers, the people who bring innovation into every area, with or without drugs.

Old and cherished ideas die hard.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

I hope they don't repeat our mistake and invent the wheel.

when aeroplanes—strange crates of wood

Olmecs had worked out the principle of the wheel

It takes courage to throw off unproductive methods and approaches that the majority of scholars in your field have unquestioningly yoked themselves to for decades.

No pyramids of comparable quality were ever built again.

Ideas without precedent," he was to write later: are generally looked on with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world are challenged. A hypothesis earnestly defended begets emotional reaction which may cloud the protagonist's view, but if such hypotheses outrage prevailing modes of thought the view of antagonists may also become fogged.

Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.

Pop, like Chronos the Titan, always eats its darlings.

chemists did it in their tubes and doctors did it with patience, but only a techie would do it in geometric progression.

Brilliant in the creation, slovenly in the consideration of consequences. Wasn't that true of every creator? Didn't anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people—perhaps many people—to death, grief, torment? The poor human Prometheuses who brought fire to their fellows. Nobel.

Louis Slotin, at Los Alamos in 1946.

rendezvous with the robots after a fast