Quotes About Innovation

Learn the rules before you break them.

I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.

Except for a human-powered hoist described

few less smart-aleck attorneys and a few more Henry Fords, and the world would have less troubles and more to eat." Ford, added another small-town paper, "comes nearer being typical of the average, energetic, courageous, honest, uncultured American than any other one man in this country….

universal automobile. With his new car for the people, Ford certainly changed how his fellow citizens lived. But, even more significantly, he changed how they thought about what was important.

I want to show how difficult was the discovery of modern science, how far from obvious are its practices and standards.

Science and technology benefit each other, but at its most fundamental level science is not undertaken for any practical reason.

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

I made wine out of raisins so I would not have to wait for it to age.

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?

Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.

I Xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra Xerox machine.

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

They don't make it as well as they did in the past!0

We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.