Quotes About Innovation

You simply cannot spend your way into the hearts and minds of technology enthusiasts and visionaries.

Design is an unknown.

Innovation is usually not a gigantic step but a series of small jumps involving various enterprising people whose names are soon forgotten.

The birth of the 20th century was like a flaming sunrise. More was expected of the century than any other. So much had been achieved in the previous one that it seemed sensible to expect that henceforth the world's triumphs would far outweigh the disasters.

In the palace of glass and iron, the locomotive and telegraphic equipment were admired not only as mechanical wonders; they were also messengers of peace and instruments of unity.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Prussians were singularly well prepared in other areas as well. They invented the "dog tag" in 1870: an oval disc worn by every soldier bearing his name, regiment, and place of residence.

It is all too often forgotten that the whole point of a city is to bring people together, to facilitate interaction, and thereby to create ideas and wealth, to enhance innovative thinking and encourage entrepreneurship and cultural activity by taking advantage of the extraordinary opportunities that the diversity of a great city offers.

We need to understand how the dynamics of innovation, technological advances, urbanization, financial markets, social networks, and population dynamics are interconnected and how their evolving interrelationships fuel growth and societal change—and, as manifestations of human endeavors, how they are all integrated into a holistic interacting systemic framework . . . and whether such a dynamically evolving system is ultimately sustainable.

Thus, to avoid collapse a new innovation must be initiated that resets the clock, allowing growth to continue and the impending singularity to be avoided.

The system we have evolved critically relies on people continually wanting new cars and new cell phones, new widgets and gadgets, new clothes and new washing machines, new thrills, new entertainment, and pretty much new everything, even when they already have enough of "everything.

It's extremely difficult to kill a city! On

Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

Darüber, daß sie nichts zum zweitenmal erfinden wollen, lernen sie alles so ansehen, wie es ihre Vorfahren angesehen haben. Der zweite Fehler ist aber gewiß schlimmer, als der erste.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...

I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little more worthy.

A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.