Quotes About Innovation

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from doubletalk.

They introduce some new technology and no matter how much good it does for most people, there's always a crazy son of a bitch who'll find something twisted to do with it.

We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

One of the facets of extreme originality is not to regard as obvious the things that lesser minds call obvious,

We want Google to be the third half of your brain," says Google cofounder Sergey Brin.

Billions of dollars were sunk into cables spanning six continents and three oceans, and a web of optical fiber engulfed the world. When the operation peaked in 1991, fiber was being rolled out, globally, at over 5,000 miles per hour, or nine times the speed of sound: Mach 9.

God creates; I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it--from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others can do.

You see a little bit of Astaire in everybody's dancing--a pause here, a move there. It was all Astaire's originally.

If you like something of someone else's, why not take it? The important thing is that it seem natural and fit in.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it – from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do...

These new times require new strategies for making faith real in people's lives. Nothing drives home the need for such innovation as attempting to connect (or reconnect) with the de-churched. Their dismissal of Christian churches is not mean-spirited; it simply reflects the firsthand experiences that led them to conclude churches are ill-equipped to support the flourishing life they hope for.

A visionary pastor is a successful pastor.

Once you get into the problem... you see that it's complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's where most people stop, and the solutions tend to work for a while. But the really great person will keep going, find the underlying problem, and come up with an elegant solution that works on every level.

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not'

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backward in a mirror

We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.

You show me something that doesn't cause cancer, and I'll show you something that isn't on the market yet.