Quotes About Innovation

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man's life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!

Le génie est un péché contre la masse.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Architecture is life, or at least life itself taking form. . . the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or will ever be lived.

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.

Keep scribbling! Something will happen.

You are the sick prince of my cerise innovations and in your drowning caresses I walk the sea

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

Dr Frost and Dr Bohrmann

My liberators in Silicon Valley have freed me to write for you directly and to say what I want to say to anyone I want to say it to. The Internet and its innovators are doing more to facilitate the reemergence of content-laden, craft-rich, hands-on art, individuality and perhaps even spirituality, than all the galleries, agents, critics, churches and publishers combined.

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

The internet has added a new layer, not created a revolutionary break.

Progress is not created by contented people.

people don't buy two-inch drill bits; they buy two-inch holes.

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution. —J. Oswald Sanders

If you believe you have a foolproof system you have failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.

It doesn't matter how badly you paint as long as you don't paint badly like other people

Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.