Quotes About Innovation

They were all enamoured with the idea of progress and believed that whatever was new must be superior to what was old. As if merit was a function of chronology!

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily -- and perhaps most tellingly -- described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

THE PROCESS OF CREATIVE DESTRUCTION

People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to measure the chilling effect on innovation that results from the threats of taxation, regulation and prosecution against anything that succeeds. We'll never know how many ideas our government has aborted in the name protecting us.

But Team Policing and the Basic Car Plan had created lots and lots of new jobs for officers of staff rank. Therefore lieutenants made captain, captains made commander and commanders made deputy chief, and everyone had all the time they needed to think up new things for the working cops to do aside from catching crooks, which most of the new captains, commanders and deputy chiefs knew nothing about.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

Authors today wrote so much to a pattern that their public expected it.

Pretty soon both the air and the roads would be so full that no one could move in comfort and everyone would have to go back to the railways for quick travel. Progress, that was.

One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.

Poverty iz the stepmother ov genius.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

It is always a good idea to give people problems and let them come up with solutions.

Shelby's mantra, "Their way of doing things is better than your way of not doing things.

Things that annoy me end up fueling my ideas.

First of all, ideas aren't the hard part. Secondly, there are no new ideas, only the author's unique execution.

the laboratories established by German pharmaceutical and dye manufacturers in the 1880s and 1890s as the first truly institutionalized research laboratories, and to General Electric's 1900 laboratory as the pioneer in America.17

The "Eighth Wonder of the World" (Astronomer) introduced the world to artificial grass and indoor baseball.

The technical afterthoughts of a truly great one can appear to be divine inspiration to the lesser artist. When

The key was to roll with the evolving situation, and contour new tactics around the principles we had discovered back home…if you have a solid foundation, you should be fine. Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood.

the study of numbers to leave numbers, or form to leave form

Brilliant creations are often born of small errors.

The weakness of an art is its dogma. And when I'm competing against an individual from a different discipline, I try to find the dogma of that discipline. When I'm competing with someone within a discipline, I try to find their personal dogma.

Musicians, actors, athletes, philosophers, scientists, writers understand that brilliant creations are often born of small errors.