Quotes About Innovation

The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

I love to simplify the ragas and use them in my music as much as possible.

My dad is an engineer and works on green energy, so I'm very aware of what it takes to keep a modern home running and how we can simplify.

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.

'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.

Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's greener simply because this is a continuum of change, improvement and discovery.

Those who are nostalgic for traditional folkways have forgotten how hard our forebears fought to escape them.

The song we're composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional, crazy heart.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

Resistance obstructs movement only from a lower sphere to a higher. It kicks in when we seek to pursue a calling in the arts, launch an innovative enterprise, or evolve to a high station morally, ethically, or spiritually.

Be brave, my heart [wrote the poet and mercenary Archilochus]. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep. The ancients resisted innovation in warfare because they feared it would rob the struggle of honor. King Agis was shown a new catapult, which could shoot a killing dart 200 yards. When he saw this, he wept. "Alas," he said. "Valor is no more.

When inspiration touches talent, she gives birth to truth and beauty.

Ignorance and arrogance are the artist and entrepreneur's indispensable allies.

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman.

Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.

talent: the innate power to discover the hidden connection between two things — images, ideas, words — that no one else has ever seen before, link them, and create for the world a third, utterly unique work.

The most highly cultured mother gives birth sweating and dislocated and cursing like a sailor. That's the place we inhabit as artists and innovators. It's the place we must become comfortable with.