Quotes About Innovation

Find tricks to keep yourself going," William Least Heat Moon once advised a group of aspiring writers. "Anything you can do to trick yourself out of panicking, do it.

Christopher Isherwood tried to trick a good topic into rising from his unconscious by irritating it, "deliberately writing nonsense until it intervenes, as it were, saying, 'All right, you idiot, let me fix this.

If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.

A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.