Quotes About Innovation

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it.

There is no adequate defence, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. Don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

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

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris into a bottle.

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

I think 'Hand to God' is going to change the landscape of Broadway. I think Broadway, truthfully, will never be the same.

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.

Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

One of the hard truths about the new digital world is that we have to be prepared to acknowledge when an experiment is not going to work, and to take action.

Could you imagine if we could leapfrog language and communicate directly with human thought? What would we be capable of then? And how will we learn to deal with the truths of unfiltered human thought? You think the Internet was big. These are huge questions.

I just claim to do what I do, which is to sing old songs and try to make them cool.

Being a great baker and pastry chef requires the upmost open mind. I try every dessert that comes my way!

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.