Quotes About Innovation

I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.

designer of ditches, not a digger of ditches

This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

The old frontiers have been conquered, and the boundaries of the new are not so clearly marked.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelf. Write it

If you don't see a book you want on the bookshelf, write it.

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.

I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.

Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.

A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things.

Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

I wondered idly what the builders of Stonehenge would have created if they'd had bulldozers and big trucks for moving materials and computers to help them design. What would they have created if they had had all the tools we have? Then I crested the brow of the hill with a view down to the visitor center, with its café and gift shop, its land trains and giant parking lot, and realized I was almost certainly looking at it.

1905. In that year, Einstein published three papers that revolutionized physics. In the same year he was turned down for two teaching jobs.

As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one about it for twenty-seven years5.

From almost nothing, France in four years built up an aircraft industry that employed nearly 200,000 people and produced some 70,000 planes. Britain built 55,000 planes, Germany 48,000, and Italy 20,000 – quite an advance bearing in mind that only a few years earlier the entire world aviation industry consisted of two brothers in a bicycle shop in Ohio.

If a product or enterprise doesn't constantly reinvent itself, it is superseded, cast aside, abandoned without sentiment in favor of something bigger, newer, and, alas, nearly always uglier.

Never has the promise of glowing skin been more dangerously apt than in the early years of the twentieth century when radium was commonly used as a featured ingredient in beauty products. (credit 7.11) Thanks

I am quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket was left in Australian hands, within a generation the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other.

pharmaceutical industry hasn't given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s. Our

The Moon is slipping from our grasp at a rate of about 1.5 inches a year. In another two billion years it will have receded so far that it won't keep us steady and we will have to come up with some other solution, but in the meantime you should think of it as much more than just a pleasant feature in the night sky.

Sometimes the world just isn't ready for a good idea.