Quotes About Innovation

I better put on my tool belt so I can think," and

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

don't be afraid to make mistakes, but not the same mistakes. You have got to be innovative even in your mistakes!

Creativity can only come from silence. If we maintain two minutes of silence every day, then we will see that a whole new dimension of life opens up.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.

IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.

ICs with ten to a hundred million components? ICs whose basic operating units are not transistors but entire microprocessors, built by the million into chips smaller than a thumbtack? Incredible as it may seem, such devices are a distinct, and utterly glorious, possibility.

Computers are composed of nothing more than logic gates stretched out to the horizon in a vast numerical irrigation system.

Although our inherent message must never change, our methods must.

Those who are ahead of their time often have to wait for it in uncomfortable quarters.

We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

It often happens, with regard to new inventions, that one part of the general public finds them useless and another part considers them to be impossible. When it becomes clear that the possibility and the usefulness can no longer be denied, most agree that the thing was fairly easy to discover and that they knew it was significant. —Abraham Edelcrantz, Treatise on Telegraphs (1796)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

I believe the principles of structural revolution are the same," Lou Gerstner pointed out in the middle of his positive transformation of IBM. "First, it takes personal commitment on the part of the CEO. This is not a job you can delegate. Second, it takes a willingness to confront and expel the people and the organizations that are throwing up roadblocks to the changes you consider critical.

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

At that time, Charlie Parker was trying to work up on something," recalled his friend Clarence Davis, "but he didn't know what he was doing. He was fishing, but nothing was biting.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

I've never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, 'don't try to fly too high,' or whether it might also be thought of as 'forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

The book can also be a hat.

Darwin: "It is not the strongest of the species that survives…nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new fount to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

For a new fount to be successful it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.