Quotes About Innovation

Picture a single imaginary plant, bearing throughout one season all the different vegetables we harvest…we'll call it a vegetannual.

But approaching mealtimes as a creative opportunity, rather than a chore, is an option.

Any sport that's not football around here is like vanilla. Why even eat that, if they've invented flavors.

There he'd found the pasteboard notebook: the most beautiful book ever, it could become anything.

today's problems can't be solved by today's people, we just keep shoring up our bankruptcy with the only tools we know. Making up more and more complicated stories about how we haven't failed.

Robert Adam was the great architect of the eighteenth century, Emma. He built many grand and beautiful

If you don't know what it is, then it's jazz

When you think you have made a mistake, think of it as an opportunity to make something beautiful!

If you want to get something you never had before, you have to do something you've never done before.

Knight's Armament SR-25, integral suppressor, twenty-round magazine, and oooh, the Leupold Mark 4 HAMR. Haven't played with one of these before. Gonna

If you want something you've never had before, you have to do something you've never done before.

even a bad idea is better than no idea. Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

Is it any wonder that our greatest men have lurched rather than walked across the landscape as they hiccupped their way into history?" "Sir, that's the best autobiography I ever heard!" I said enthusiastically.

It is our imagination that gives shape to the universe.

That's genius, you see. The masterstroke that no one recognises until it's been pulled off.

More than two decades later we know that American Science Fiction was not murdered. It had a whopper of a heart attack; it lay in the intensive care ward for quite a while. (and had like most indigents to somehow find its way to the hospital itself), but time and a little fresh air did wonders for the patient, who toddled out of the hospital in 1965 and has not yet returned…Over a thousand titles labeled "science fiction" have been published every year since 1978.

Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy, as well as the number of processes we have to engage in and think about, for each of us to obtain the necessities of life.

The widespread notion that stories never should be changed but should be repeated without alteration every time is an innovation of modern written cultures.

the art of the possible.

original art is self-regulated; and no original art can be regulated from without. It carries its own counterpoise and does not receive it from elsewhere—lives on its own blood.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and he opens ways for a better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it, shows there are still more pages possible.

Innovations are financial risks.

It was wrong, but sometimes you have to break a few eggs in order to make an omelette.

Boredom can be a very good thing for someone in a creative jam.