Quotes About Innovation

writers who cast about for something new will scarcely ever be great, for great things could not have escaped the attention of earlier observers.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Como dijo Gustav Schmoller, «la revolución puede evitarse siempre con las reformas oportunas».

Happily, solving problems by intensifying production and increasing complexity does not always yield catastrophic results.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Every piece of business strategy… must be seen in its role in the perennial gale of creative destruction.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.

This kind of art school is for me the least important. A spiritual structure is needed. If a person is an artist he can use the most primitive of instruments:- a broken knife is enough. Otherwise it remains a craft school.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.

To live a creative life we must forget our fear of being wrong.

Painted into a corner, caught in a cul-de-sac, out on that final last-chance limb, life scrabbles around, searching for a new way out.

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

B]lood is the manure of the plant that we call genius.

He who never makes a mistake, never makes anything.

Quintilian said—"Prefer the oldest of the new and the newest of the old." Pope put this in rhyme and it still holds good: In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

He'd taken to the BlackBerry right away, even though he complained that his fingers were too thick for the Lilliputian keys.

Man, I think you're actually proud of being a Luddite.

When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things.

History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

The seed of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.