Quotes About Innovation

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it.

Those who think only in straight lines cannot see around a curve.

Don't wait for the opportunity, create it.

Vision differentiates between a follower and a leader.

How many geniuses are we putting to sleep today and where would our world be now, if the age of pill popping, mind numbing control existed during the times of Da Vinci, Shakespeare, or Einstein?

Any fool can kill. It takes genius to create.

Reach for something out of the ordinary. You must dare to even come close.

Piracy is the new radio.

As a rule I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

To understand the future of technology, we need to begin with one fundamental truth: Technology is natural.

Remember this:  genre is the marriage of convention with invention.

When the only tool that you have is a hydrospanner, every problem looks like something that needs to be torqued.

It's just that when you're playing in standard tuning all the time," Moore explained, "you're sounding pretty… standard.

do-it-yourself-with-lots-of-rough-edges-who-cares-we-tried spirit

I was going through enormous changes in my own life, so I thought, 'Well, maybe it's time for something new here.

I MUST CREATE A SYSTEM OR BE ENSLAVED BY ANOTHER MAN'S." —WILLIAM BLAKE

making things sound new was the whole idea.

The band readily acknowledged that they borrowed ideas rather than making up their own. "That's all you can do today," Turner explained. "I think you're kinda fooling yourself as a rock band if you think you're doing something really original.

It was a lot more wide open as to what a song was," Ranaldo says. "A song was a lot more about sound and structure than it was about chords and progressions and stuff like that.