Quotes About Innovation

Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.

the concept of the B seat, where one had to sit between two other passengers, had been eliminated along with other unpleasant things, like disease and government.

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?

Whoever invented the spork should be killed.

Lev smiles. Leave it to you to turn someone else's screwup into gold

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

New Beginning to the same old story

The exploration of possibility has always been the realm of science. The true scientist leave practical application to others.

Genius serves no one if it never makes it out of your head.

Of course, the bad scythes weren't all in the past. But instead of "bad" they were now called "innovative" and "forward-thinking.

The difference between you and me...is that when I look at the world, I see opportunity. When you look at the world, you're just trying to find a place to urinate.

Ah! Seurat! Prophetic pointillism a century before the pixel!

Give him a calculator and he can change the world, but whenever the car breaks down, and the mechanic asks him what's wrong, his response is usually, "It broke.

It's like art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he can paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on one side of a face, and noses stickin' outta kneecaps and stuff. See, if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist.

Of course, the bad scythes weren't all in the past. But instead of bad they were now called innovative and forward-thinking. Like the innovative bloodbaths of Scythe Goddard and his killer cronies.

Neal Shusterman

THE OLD GUARD AND THE NEW ORDER

As he looked around at this boneyard of uselessness, Nick Slate had a simple idea. An idea that would not only change the direction of his life, but the very course of human existence. He would hold a garage sale.

If technology allows us a new way to give, how could it be wrong?

Last I heard, no one's been deaf for two hundred years.

You've got to do something you've never done, to have something you've never had.

You've got to do something you've never done, to have something you've never had.

The world is full of bad ideas that turn into wonderful things.