Quotes About Innovation

Copying is out of the question; only fools and impostors copy. No, the thing is to produce something as good, if possible, out of your own resources. And so begins the strange torture of the blank sheet of paper, where you must open a window that is not the one I spotted just now but one equally insistent in its truthfulness.

What we give the world, we have borrowed from no one; it is ours. It may be taken from us, stolen from us, but imitated? - never.

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us ... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?

Lo verdaderamente nuevo da miedo o maravilla.

Inventaron un cristal que dejaba pasar las moscas. La mosca venía, empujaba un poco con la cabeza y, pop, ya estaba del otro lado. Alegría enormísima de la mosca.

nueva alquimia del verbo

Para qué sirve un escritor sino para destruir la literatura?

The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the ground, and that our streets will again be quiet, but I know perfectly well that when that day comes some new device for torturing the old will be invented.

Stop building tomorrow's roads on today's grounds.

We're committed to the idea that a book has to live in the present . . . but the reality, that's hard for us to recognise, is that a book has to live in the future.

For each of these challenges there are many answers. But the world needs more optimists to discover those more quickly. The world needs more people like you to step up and take your place as contributor, problem solver, or inventor. We

Failures are trickling springs that feed into rivers of success, if only you keep creating.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.

One day you have Einstein, puzzling over the theory of relativity, the next you've got the Manhattan Project and a big hole in the ground.

Sorry, we made vampires, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Some day they'd invent call discarding. Like call forwarding, only it would hang up preemptively on telemarketers.

A child of the new age of iron, steam, and mechanical wonders, the architect, Isaiah Rogers, virtually invented the modern hotel: a functionally complex and self-contained structure (and social organization) that was a sort of human terrarium. A closed world designed from the ground up for the specific purpose of welcoming, housing, maintaining, and feeding guests in advanced comfort, the hotel was no longer just a stop along the way: it was a destination in itself

Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.

You raze the old to raise the new.

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and then another one next to it. "So why wouldn't you want to join the ranks of the ridiculed?