Quotes About Innovation

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.

America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin

People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.

She herself had given up washing long ago, and besides, people no longer believed in stale urine, either for one purpose or another.

a curious gizmo that a bearded Scotsman named Alexander Graham Bell was calling his "telephone." (Bell would read from Hamlet's soliloquy at one end of the hall, and attendees at the other could plainly hear the inventor's voice issuing from a little speaker. "My God, it talks!" exclaimed one prominent visitor, Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil.)

The world is made from our imagination ; our eyes enliven it , as our hands give it shape.Wanting makes it thrive; meaning is what you put in , not what you extract. you can only see what you are inclined to see, and no more. We have to make the new.

It's frustration which makes creativity possible.

Yet velvet curtains, soft cheese, compelling work and boys who can run full-tilt—it isn't enough. And if it isn't, it isn't. There's no living with that. The world is made from our imagination; our eyes enliven it, as our hands give it shape. Wanting makes it thrive; meaning is what you put in, not what you extract. You only see what you are inclined to see, and no more. We have to make the new.

The greatest revolutionary innovation, Madison's discovery of the federal principle for the foundation of large republics

an increase in the workers' productivity, but exclusively the development of technology, and this depended neither on the working class nor on the bourgeoisie, but on the scientists.

who actually believe that men in think tanks are thinkers and that computers can think;

Machiavelli knew enough to say the following: "There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.

What ticks in the clock, beats here with strong strokes of the hammer. It is Bloodless, who drank life from human thought and thereby got limbs of metals, stone and wood; it is Bloodless, who by human thought gained strength, which man himself does not physically possess. Bloodless reigns in Motala, and through the large foundries and factories he extends his hard limbs, whose joints and parts consist of wheel within wheel, chains, bars, and thick iron wires.

The right sort (of story) come of themselves: they tap at my forehead and say 'Here we are.

Big Idea: Where there is no vision, the people don't follow. It is as simple as that. Vision for a better future, conveyed with genuine passion, is the great motivator.

If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only thing to move things forward.

If somebody tells you there's a rule, break it.

If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only way to move things forward.

On the radio a rock group called the Motels were repeatedly singing the ingenious line Take the L out of lover, and it's over. Deep. Literal, but still deep. The Motels. Whatever happened to them?

Hasidim are more open to change than golfers

She opened the machine's mouth and put in a pod called Jet Fuel. The machine seemed to eat the pod and piss out the coffee.

Myron said, "For what breeds time but two hands on a clock?" "Who said that?" "No one. I just made it up.