Quotes About Innovation

You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you? Only a man would think of that. It's our job, said Moist. If you don't think of fifty-foot-high killer golems first, someone else will.

You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.

I'm just capable of entertaining the fantastic idea that, in certain circumstances, Homo sapiens might actually be capable of thinking. It must be worth a go, since we've tried everything else.

Keep your vocabulary as wide as you can. I have some difficulty with the word 'cool', and I'm not too bothered about the word 'awesome'. People like me are looking to people like you guys of the next generation to deal with this shit. It's like seeing a rock guitarist pick up a Fender Stratocaster and hold it the wrong way.

Mister Lipwig, the world lives between those who say it cannot be done and those who say that it can. And in my experience, those who say that it can be done are usually telling the truth. It's just a matter of thinking creatively.

Apply logic in places where it wasn't intended to exist.

Not craftsmen, my lord he said. I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible

The nice thing about artificial intelligence is that at least it's better than artificial stupidity.

And in this doleful mood he ventured to wonder if they ever thought back to when things were just old-fangled or not fangled at all as against the modern day when fangled had reached its apogee. Fangling was indeed, he thought, here to stay. Then he wondered: had anyone ever thought of themselves as a fangler?

If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal.

Swing, though, started in the wrong place. He didn't look around, and watch and learn, and then say, 'This is how people are, how do we deal with it?' No, he sat and thought: This is how the people ought to be, how do we change them?' And that was a good enough thought for a priest but not for a copper, because Swing's patient, pedantic way of operating had turned policing on its head.

We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it.

Old gods do new jobs.

When you break rules, break 'em good and hard

New things, new ideas arrived and strutted their stuff and were vilified by some and then lo! that which had been a monster was suddenly totally important to the world.

what was once considered impossible is now quite easily achieved. Kings and lords come and go and leave nothing but statues in a desert, while a couple of young men tinkering in a workshop change the way the world works.

And he read Principles of Accounting all morning, but just to make it interesting, he put lots of dragons in it.

here is the new thing and here it is. And yesterday you never thought about it and after today you don't know what you would do without it. That was what the technology was doing. It was your slave but, in a sense, it might be the other way round.

Why? Why not do things differently? Why should we do things how they have always been done before? And something inside her suddenly thrilled to the challenge.

It was always cheaper to build a new 33-MegaLith circle than upgrade an old slow one.

When you have dived off a cliff, your only hope is to press for the abolition of gravity.

It was no use getting angry with Wullie; he lived in a Wullie-shaped world of his own. You had to think diagonally.

An imagination is a terrible thing to bring along.

There was practically nothing that he wouldn't attack, including architecture.