Quotes About Innovation

When it's too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

When I was growing up, I was taught that the future belonged to those who could imagine it.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

How do you keep this place running?" I said. "How did you think it would work in the first place?" She smiled. "I was dumb enough to give it a try.

You take bits off crickets and they grow new parts," Edwards explains in his cheery New Zealand accent. "My interest in this alpine work is that you find creatures growing in habitats where you wouldn't expect anything to be.

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

the speed with which we're inventing our world is outpacing our avility to understand the impact of our inventions.

Our current public education system is good at producing workers, but it can be a miserable place for creators, artists, and future leaders.

The world would not have advanced very far had it not been for the contributions of its dreamers. It would never have gained its steamboat, nor its Atlantic cable, nor its wireless telegraph, nor its electric light. It would never have acquired any really great enterprise. For a little enterprise may be rustled and worried into being: but a really great program or movement or business must be dreamed.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

It takes a conscious effort to expose yourself to new ideas.

Universities are the talent magnets and anchors of the innovation-driven knowledge economy. But for decades, CMU has been generating talent and technology and subsequently losing them to more mature tech hubs like Silicon Valley.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement

Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity--Bruce Lee

Never try to copy a successful personality.

The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

The creating individual is always more important than any established style or system.