Quotes About Innovation

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The toys can talk and are interactive, so they can be easily distinguished from Star Wars fans.

He wanted to open her up like a new WalMart.

At home, I set the table and make my bed," said Krista. "I like the chores I do here much better--like baking and taking food out to the pigs." Amanda helped get dinner ready. "I miss a normal carrot peeler," she said as she scraped vegetables with a knife. Then she started to shuck corn. "Now that I think about it," she added, "I wish someone in the future would invent a corn peeler.

I sort of wish they had invented hooky by now," said Brandon M.

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

Steampunk!" Cisco whooped with excitement. "Yes! Now all is forgiven.

One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom.

different way. He's into random splotches.

you ever thought that you are not getting enough out of your digital camera, you are probably right. Many owners of new digital cameras are unaware of what their cameras are capable of doing and it's not really their fault. The fact is that all of these new-fangled cameras hit the market with a glut of expressions being used that baffled the consumer who was hungry to try out new technology. I did three years at photographic college in the early seventies and the difference between the

Xi is quite comfortable using China's huge market power and deep pockets to suck up advanced technologies from abroad and into China. The aim of achieving self-reliance in semi-conductors, batteries, and other crucially important technologies has become increasingly overt. With the hands of the state so obviously orchestrating this massive effort, it is no wonder that China is provoking a backlash in the United States and Europe.

The devices meant to simplify our lives merely create new and improved complexities.

A pencil is an extension of a finger writing in the sand. But our electronic media are extensions of our brains.

I don't see how you can live in a black and white world without becoming…uncreative. You can't make anything new. Everything already is what it is.

When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable.

Szabo reckoned that the future of libraries was a combination of a people's university, a community hub, and an information base, happily partnered with the Internet rather than in competition with it. In practical terms, Szabo felt the library should begin offering classes and voter registration and literacy programs and story times and speaker series and homeless outreach and business services and computer access and movie rentals and e-book loans and a nice gift shop. Also, books.

Overnight, the city managed to procure thousands of cardboard boxes, fifteen hundred hard hats, a few thousand rolls of packing tape, and the services of Eric Lundquist, a mechanical engineer and former popcorn distributor who had reinvented himself as a expert in drying out wet things. The notion of putting the books in with groceries didn't faze Lundquist, since he'd freeze-dried his first salvaged books alongside a summer's worth of peas and carrots from his garden.

Los Angeles seemed to always be moving toward the eternal future; it was a city that shed memories before they had a chance to stick.

Libraries saw the Internet coming and extended a hand. First they set up computer stations for public use; then they offered free Wi-Fi. Now at Central Library and many other libraries around the country, there are kiosks where anyone can borrow a laptop or tablet computer to use for the day, just the way she might borrow a book.

a library is an intricate machine, a contraption of whirring gears.