Quotes About Innovation

I think every big town should contain artificial waterfalls that people could descend in very fragile canoes, and they should contain bathing pools full of mechanical sharks. Any person found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours a day with these ingenious monsters.

any hypothesis, however absurd, may be useful in science, if it enables a discoverer to conceive things in a new way; but when it has served this purpose by luck, it is likely to become an obstacle to further advance.

One hundred and fifty years of science have proved more explosive than five thousand years of prescientific culture. It would be absurd to suppose that the explosive power of science is exhausted, or has even reached its maximum. It is far more likely that science will continue for centuries to come to produce more and more rapid changes.

Fiecare mare idee porneÅŸte cu o blasfemie.

Change is scientific, 'progress' is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

the Churches, everywhere, opposed as long as they could practically every innovation that made for an increase of happiness or knowledge here on Earth

El impulso hacia las empresas personales debe dirigirse hacia cosas tales como la creación artística, los descubrimientos científicos o la creación de instituciones útiles; en una palabra, en actividades que son creativas más bien que posesivas.

I have found, for example, that, if I have to write upon some rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with very great intensity – the greatest intensity of which I am capable—for a few hours or days, and at the end of that time give orders, so to speak, that the work is to proceed underground. After some months I return consciously to the topic and find that the work has been done.

When God desires to do "a new thing" (Isa. 43:19), He purposely seeks out a few righteous renegades who don't have a problem breaking the mold! Mold-breakers are usually people who don't care much about popularity or tradition.

I support both Democrats and Republicans on many issues. I'm more interested in where they are on technology.

My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene.

Israel now has a reputation around the world of being not just a place to develop products and technology but to develop ideas.

I think ballet has a bad reputation of being stuffy and depleted.

For me, I had that reputation as being a guy that did a lot of stuff early on in my career, but to me, at the time I needed to do that in order to be noticed. Eventually, my style evolved and started making it to where every match wasn't about a dive outside of the ring.

I've never sampled just one artist, I'm known for my reputation and my creativity.

You pick what your customers want, not what your entrenched business model may require you to do.

In my experience, fledgling entrepreneurs focus way too much on the money - you can get most things done and figure out a lot without spending much. That said, most businesses require money to launch and get off the ground.

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.

My own beliefs are that the road to a scientific discovery is seldom direct and that it does not necessarily require great expertise. In fact, I am convinced that often a newcomer to a field has a great advantage because he is ignorant and does not know all the complicated reasons why a particular experiment should not be attempted.

Through bitcoin, the Argentines are developing an economy which doesn't require the bankers.

I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.

What I can say is that there are some collections that come easily, and others that require more work.