Quotes About Innovation

What a stupid innovation! Skate blades. Indoor lakes. It had a perverse, fairy-tale logic, I thought, tying knives to your feet and carving out over frozen water.

When your world gets turned upside down view it from a new perspective

Separate organizations with related software needs often find themselves duplicating effort, either by redundantly writing similar code in-house, or by purchasing similar products from proprietary vendors. When they realize what's going on, the organizations may pool their resources and create (or join) an open source project tailored to their needs. The advantages are obvious: the costs of development are divided, but the benefits accrue to all.

This author has nothing but imagination…there are people who claim that imagination has clearer and keener eyes than a wise, old mind." Translated from: Und Friede auf Erden, (1904) (And Peace on Earth)

Maschinelles Leben fördert, künstlerische Umgebung lähmt die innere Poesie.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It's like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what's needed by nature, and what's needed is to bring something new.

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

All life is problem solving

Science is a 'trial and error' learning process, and one of the virtues of an open society is its ability to learn from experience. Closed societies resist novelty and therefore pass up the chance to learn from experience.

Like many others of his generation, he came to suspect that sustaining a lively and innovative economic system might place more constraints on the pursuit of equality than he had once thought.

We must not act like children reared with the narrow outlook "As it has been handed down to us".

The way of science is paved with discarded theories which were once declared self-evident;

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

Frankenstein's monster speaks: the computer. But where are its words coming from? Is the wisdom on those cold lips our own, merely repeated at our request? Or is something else speaking?—A voice we have always dreamed of hearing?

Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.