Quotes About Innovation

The future is a monotonous instrument.

Discoveries about genetics are not limited to just those 6,000 conditions of a strongly hereditary nature, however. We are now in the midst of a genetic revolution that will touch all of us in numerous ways:

Coca-Cola bottles exactly fitted the average person's hand. Bandages came as a packet of pink patches with a glue just strong enough for the human skin already applied to each one. America was a torrent of clever anticipations.

Rockets now evoke a slightly old-fashioned kind of wonder, because they stand for an obsolete version of technological prowess. In the scheme of history which has become the most popular version of the recent past, the Space Age counts as the final phase of the Age of Industry – its culmination, just before the paradigm changed and the Age of Information replaced steel with digits.

Evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer.

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Art must take reality by surprise.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

We walked on the moon. We made footprints somewhere no one else had ever made footprints, and unless someone comes and rubs them out, those footprints will be there forever because there's no wind.

Historically some of the most prosperous societies - Ancient Athens, Renaissance Italy, nineteenth century Britain - were among those that were most oriented towards experimentation and the taking of risks.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

Talent is liquified trouble.

I've always believed that if you know what you're going to do, you won't do it. Your creativity starts with your curiosity.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far'--and when others follow, as they will, move on.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.