Quotes About Innovation

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

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.

You can beat the Bear once, but never the same way twice.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

A love of fashion makes the economy go round.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

"The tradition of the new." Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.

There are two kinds of fools: one says, 'This is old, therefore it is good'; the other says, 'This is new, therefore it is better.'

People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.

If there's no bread, cakes are very good.

Business is more exciting than any game.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.