Quotes About Innovation

I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.

I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.

The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I would love to do.

I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow.

People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.

This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.

Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.

Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?

active wisdom --an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52]

Creativity is a commodity and derives its value only in how energy is spent.

Tradition was safety; change was danger.

Add water, and the soil is so fertile that you could plant a pencil and harvest a book.

Our physicists have confirmed the practicality of using an altered asteroid for transport

Marc was in charge of the Wolverton tube plant colony and the tilapia tank, which would produce fresh food to supplement the packaged stuff they were bringing.

faith in technology was more by practical default than informed conviction

Engineers don't go to confession when they screw up; they find a fix.

Others can't stand to revise; instead they decide they're avant-garde, so everybody who doesn't like their work is unenlightened. (Note: being avant-garde is now... well, garde.)

Three Things to Remember As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules. Sometimes there are no rules.

As long as you're dancing, you can Break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just Extending the rules. Sometimes there are no rules.

The world has need of dreamers as well as shoemakers.

Invention hovers always a little above the rules.