Quotes About Innovation

Humans don't excel at performing repetitive manual work.

Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.

Only those who see the invisible can do the impossible

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

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

When Henry and I had had to work out a really sticky problem together, neither of us was allowed to mention it. No bursting out with 'Say, I've got an idea! What do you think of this? . . .' It was not allowed, because the thing had not matured enough, and putting forth an idea that was not worked out in detail wasted the other's time and kept him from letting it 'ripen'.

Ühiskonnas tõuseb lihtsamalt ja kiiremini kõrgele see, kes oskab kütkestada, mõrtsukaid liita, valeinformatsiooni levitada, kui see, kes oskab toota uusi mõtteid ja asju.

She looks over at the Tate on the opposite side of the river, where she occasionally wanders the galleries to clear her head during lunchtime (when she takes one), to marvel at the ability of artists to make such mind-blowing creations out of their imagination Imagination What was that? Does she even have one?

To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago

In 1922 everything changed again. The Eskimo pie was invented; James Joyce's Ulysses was printed in Paris; snow fell on Mauna Loa, Hawaii; Babe Ruth signed a three-year contract with the New York Yankees; Eugene O'Neill was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Frederick Douglass's home was dedicated as a national shrine; former heavyweight champion of the world Jack Johnson invented the wrench...

Pidage meeles, et see, mis on ühele põlvkonnale ime, võib olla järgmisele teaduslik fakt.

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

Art is not a mirror to hold up to reality, rather a hammer to shape it.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. The Singer, in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, prologue (1944).

The most important thing is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the thinking of great men.

If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be the crooked one.

La science ne connaît qu'une loi : la contribution scientifique. (Scène 14, Andrea, La Vie de Galilée, Bertolt Brecht )

Some know full well what Bernard Shaw had in mind when he wrote that "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Rather