Quotes About Innovation

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

Programming is like sex: It may give some concrete results, but that is not why we do it. – apologies to Richard Feynman

Let no one say that I have said nothing new; the arrangement of the material is new. In playing tennis both players use the same ball, but one plays it better. I would just as soon be told that I have used old words. As if the same thoughts did not form a different argument by being differently arranged, just as the same words make different thoughts when arranged differently!

Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.

Che non si dica che non ho detto niente di nuovo: la disposizione delle materie è nuova.

When contemplating our reader, he reminded us, we needed to take the whole person into account. "I always tried to tell the editors to think of the business person as an artist using both sides of his brain," he said. "You're not just writing for a rational person. You are writing for someone who has the soul of an artist, and his expression is business.

First, the process will lead you to look for and adopt better business practices, as Ray Pagano did.

Brodsky couldn't accept the notion that an industry, any industry, was closed to new competition. He realized that if he was going to get anywhere in records storage, he would have to come up with an approach to the business different from that of the established records-storage providers. That meant using his peripheral vision, looking at the business this way and that until he saw something that everybody else was missing.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.

Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

Then there's the trap of easy rhymes.

Sometimes that's all it takes, the kind of recognition that comes when you're doing the thing for the thing's sake and you're on to something—it's just that nobody recognizes it yet.

It has always been my nature to take chances My right-hand drawing while my left-hand advances Bob Dylan

Vary your training, your running partners, and your environment. Only your imagination limits the ways you can spice up your running routine.

And pigs will fly," Nada muttered. "They do if you toss them out of a plane," Mac observed. "It's just the landing that ain't pretty.

what-iffing.

different era." "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Whatever your resources, the world was yours to the exact degree to which you summoned the fortitude and faith to step away from convention and orthodoxy and invent your own life. Tay