Quotes About Innovation

To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

If man could apply half the ingenuity he's exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there's no limit to what he might yet accomplish

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion.

When it came to art, desire was a big part of it. Not sexual desire, but the desire to create, to produce, to explore the world around oneself. Without the desire . . . an artist had nothing.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering."1 - JEFF BEZOS, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, AMAZON

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

None of her spells are planned, but come to her like snatches of poetry or a doodle on a napkin.

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The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.

Don't be a martyr to your imagination.

Make your own learning materials, such as counting beads, fraction circles, tangram shapes, geoboards, and other hands-on math manipulatives.

We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the world of artefact. We search for a link between who we are and what we have made, between who we are and what we might create, between who we are and what, through our intimacy with our own creations, we might become.

enduring technological optimism, a belief that as other things go wrong, science will go right.

Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead.

Winston Churchill said, "We shape our buildings and then they shape us."23 We make our technologies, and they, in turn, shape us. So, of every technology we must ask, Does it serve our human purposes?—a question that causes us to reconsider what these purposes are. Technologies, in every generation, present opportunities to reflect on our values and direction.

There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete.

Zane, six, knows that AIBO doesn't have a "real brain and heart," but they are "real enough." AIBO is "kind of alive" because it can function "as if it had a brain and heart.

In my studies I found that children were most likely to see this new category of object, the computational object, as "sort of" alive—a

The idea of the original had no place.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.