Quotes About Innovation

In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible."

Throughout the history of el Bulli, there have been many changes in its organisation or philosophy. This is another one of those moments. There will be risk, and freedom, and creativity. But there won't be opening hours, or reservations, or routines.

Criticizing and objecting to everything means an attempt to destruction. If you do not like something, try to make something better than it. Being destructive causes ruins, while being constructive brings about prosperity.

we discovered that some great minds have the same passions, and now look where we are

I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.

The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.

The impact of the thinking machine will be a shock certainly of comparable order to that of the atomic bomb." He

For myself I would desire a combination of old romance and modern machinery.

The thing man seeks is seeking him - the telephone was seeking Bell!

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

What we inherited from the past must not be permitted to shackle us in the future. State of the Union Address January 19, 1977

There is one path out of poverty, and that is the path of wealth creation through the free market.

Unser ganzes Unglück rührt daher, dass wir uns nie wiederholen wollen. Als gebe es mehrere Wahrheiten.

it is the man of the night who invents, the man of the morning is nothing but a scribe.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge as representatives for all mankind.

There may be questions still unanswered, but that means that we need science, not that science is useless [...] There are fish in the sea as yet uncaught, but that does not mean that fishing nets have failed and should be thrown aside.

It had shown him that if you looked at things from a new angle, they could suddenly become unfamiliar and scary. It became important to see things in as many different ways as possible, so they couldn't catch you by surprise.

Companies] mistook a lack of competition for success.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

Francesc Miralles

He came to value his own critical thinking over the completion of a finished product. Whether it was a painting, a book, or an experiment, it was the process rather than the outcome that mattered to him.

We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.