Quotes About Innovation

Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

I want to explore the existing manufacturing abilities of Indian companies and create products together.

This century, the 21st century, will be the Indian century - and I really believe that.

The officials told Gehry that they wanted a building that could do for Bilbao and the Basque Country what the Sydney Opera House had done for Sydney and Australia: put them on the map and bring back growth.

We do not have to be desperate to be creative. Indeed, there's reason to think that desperation may actually hinder the imaginative moments that elevate a project to glory.

We know what's good: climate mitigation, for instance, by electrifying everything—homes, cars, offices, factories, shops—and making sure that the electricity comes from abundant renewable sources. We have the ability to do this.

And why are wind and solar power the most reliable projects of all, more likely than any other project type to be delivered successfully?

First, you can't build a nuclear power plant quickly, run it for a while, see what works and what doesn't, then change the design to incorporate the lessons learned.

Second, there's a problem with experience—the other half of experiri. If you are building a nuclear power plant, chances are that you haven't done much of that before for the simple reason that few have been built and each takes many years to complete, so opportunities to develop experience are scarce.

We're good at learning by tinkering—which is fortunate, because we're terrible at getting things right the first time.

It's relatively easy to build something small and simple.

A good plan, as I said, is one that maximizes experience or experimentation; a great plan is one that does both. And the best plan? That's one that maximizes experience and experimentation—and is drafted and delivered by a project leader and team with phronesis.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself.

Science has equipped man in less than fifty years with more tools than he had made during the thousands of years he had lived on earth. Each new machine being for man a new organ -- an artificial organ -- his body became suddenly and prodigiously increased in size, without his soul being at the same time able to dilate to the dimensions of his body.

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison -- if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Every major feature of the modern United States—from racial equality to Social Security, from the Pentagon to the suburb—represents a repudiation of Jeffersonianism.

There are no such things as incurable s. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

First colonized by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, in 1583, St John's has ever since been an important outpost of the Americas. Home port of the vast Grand Banks cod fishing fleet, it was here, on Signal Hill, that Marconi received the first transatlantic wireless message in 1901, and from here Alcock and Brown took off to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919.

If you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.