Quotes About Innovation

Via?a noastr? e una, iar tu o reinventezi tot timpul ca s? par? mult mai interesant?.

He invented ordinary things, and I stress, ordinary. Not brilliant, just ordinary, and that's exactly what humanity needs. Brilliant inventions might be good for brilliant people, but how many brilliant people are there? On the other hand, ordinary inventions are good for everyone.

He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That's right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that's never happened before.

Once he was going, it was difficult to stop him. "Mathematics is like carving a wooden doll," he said, "and then, one day, you watch as your wooden doll gives birth to another wooden doll." These words have stayed with me all my life.

Whatever you're doing, chances are someone, somewhere has done something similar. Learn from others' successes and mistakes. Leverage your valuable time and don't reinvent the wheel!

If you're already a front-end developer, well, pretend you're also wearing a pirate hat.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what has been said has still not been said enough.

What drives men of genius is their obsession with the idea that what has already been done is not good enough.

Beavers will invent a new way of building dams before architects accept a new method or a new style in their art (23 August 1854).

You must use methods familiar to the times in which you live, otherwise you will not be understood, and you will not live. This languages of another age, which you desire to use in speaking to men of your own times, will always be an artificial medium (Monday 16 March 1857)

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

Men of genius are made not by new ideas, but by an idea which possesses them, namely, that what has been said has not yet been sufficiently said.

A work of art really is above all an adventure of the mind.

Saying we should keep the two-party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

I was pretty certain that the adventure I was going through now had made me a more creative, flexible thinker than I'd ever been.

I long for someone to invent a punctuation mark for despondency…)

This is the year that everyone is trying to fly around the world in a balloon. I don't know why.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

It is my purpose also to give the names and number and times of those who through love of innovation have run into the greatest errors, and, proclaiming themselves discoverers of knowledge falsely so-called [1 Timothy 6:20] have like fierce wolves unmercifully devastated the flock of Christ.

Tyranny and imagination are archenemies.