Quotes About Innovation

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

Don't be so sure that your version of reality is better because it's newer.

Don't think 'I can't write an anthem'—think 'The United States of America made it two centuries with a terrible anthem that no one can sing. I bet I can do better than that.

They're good at this. Don't be so sure that your version of reality is better because it's newer.

something else created modernity, the world that most of us reading this book inhabit. That something was the sudden availability, beginning in the early eighteenth century, of cheap fossil fuel. An exaggeration? One barrel of oil yields as much energy as twenty-five thousand hours of human manual labor

Few people think about it or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.

As an engineer trained in the U.S., I look at the assault on evolution—which is actually an assault on science overall—as much more than an intellectual issue; for me, it's personal. I feel strongly that we need the young people of today to become the scientists and the engineers of tomorrow so that my native United States continues to be a world leader in discovery and innovation. If we suppress science in this country, we are headed for trouble.

I feel strongly that we need the young people of today to become the scientists and the engineers of tomorrow so that my native United States continues to be a world leader in discovery and innovation. If we suppress science in this country, we are headed for trouble.

We are a result of evolution, and therefore so are our creations—both the not-so-good and very good. It's glorious.

Configuring necks this way is almost certainly not how a designer or engineer would build the world. But the details all make perfect sense once you embrace the idea that evolution does not work the way a human designer or engineer would.

Our understanding of evolution came to us by exactly the same method of scientific discovery that led to printing presses, polio vaccines, and smartphones.

The great questions of evolution bring out the best in us: our boundless curiosity, and our boundless ability to explore. After all, evolution made us who we are.

Whether ideas like this are inspiration or insomnia, I don't know," he writes in his journal. "I do things by sixth sense." Patton

But I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?

Whenever you are stuck with a problem, try something new. Do something—just one thing—different. Break the pattern of the problem. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results!

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

Almost overnight, the Internet's gone from a technical wonder to a business must.

For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.