Quotes About Innovation

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Walter, how on earth are you going to support this big place with those cartoons of yours? Aren't you afraid you'll go broke?" Walt replied, "Well, if I do fail, Dad, I can get out easy. You notice how this place is built, with rooms along long corridors? If I go broke with my cartoons, I can always sell it for a hospital.

Those who are in the orbit, but nonetheless on the edges, can often be the real discoverers. It was why at times, the journalist, the historian and even the novelist paints the fullest picture of an era

If a problem can't be solved easily, make it bigger

Just play it by ear," Bannon said. "We'll figure it out." That was the Trump way. Playing by ear, acting on impulse. Pure Trump.

But overlooked was that Trump had a way of appearing to strengthen his own hand by creating a situation, often risky, that did not previously exist. Threatening the volatile North Korean regime with nuclear weapons was unthinkable, but he had done it. It turned out to be only the beginning. The go-along, get-along presidency of the past was over.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

She was obsessed with the idea of breaking with everything she had ever known or experienced, and starting on something new.

Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great.

He craved an idea, inspired yet concrete, that would show a clear path and change the world for the better, an idea as unmistakable to a child or an ignorant fool as lightning or a roll of thunder. He craved for something new.

I have never understood those dreams of a completely original form of expression. The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say. Then he uses the old language in his urgency and the old language is translated from within.

Progress in science is governed by the laws of repulsion, every step forward is made by refutation of prevalent errors and false theories.

And more than that, the United States of America was a whole new type of nation. Nothing like America had ever been tried before in the history of the world.

I will blaze my own trail.

Today, there's more computing power in a cell phone than there was on Apollo 11, and that brought us to the moon and back.

The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn't win by thinking inside the box and following someone else's rules. You turned the box upside down and made your own rules, no matter what the enemy threw at you.

The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.

There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.

Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect, the knowledge of the brain?

it seemed to him as if Mr Norrell had discovered some fifth point of the compass – not east, nor south, nor west, nor north, but somewhere quite different and this was the direction in which he led them.

Tutti erano ammaliati dall'idea del progresso e credevano che qualsiasi cosa nuova dovesse essere superiore a ciò che era vecchio. Come se il merito fosse una funzione della cronologia!

Question: is it possible to knit socks from seaweed? Doubtful.)

This is what I call a Distributary World – it was created by ideas flowing out of another world. This world could not have existed unless that other world had existed first.