Quotes About Innovation

If there's a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn't exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn't have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that's it. That's all an artist does.

There are smiles that actually travel along telephone wires, although no engineer at Bell Laboratories could explain how it works.

not a fighter… an adventurer. He doesn't attack, he engages; He doesn't defend, he expands; He doesn't destroy, he transforms; He doesn't reject, he explores; ….

Science gives man what he needs. But magic gives him what he wants.

The function of the artist,' the Navajo answered, 'is to provide what life does not.

In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery.

Those people who recognize that imagination is reality's master, we call "sages," and those who act upon it, we call "artists.

The dinosaurs died so that chat rooms may flourish

Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous.

That's the value of the artist... Even when they aren't aware, they're dreaming our dreams for us.

Real courage is risking one's clichés.

Can't they comprehend that not ever'thing's done for a paycheck? That sometimes you just make a thing 'cause you wanna see how it'll turn out, 'cause you have a feeling in your gut that it oughta be made?

We each took a fierce delight in introducing the other to some new idea or development, the next amazing artist or record album, always hustling to out-avant the other's garde.

The function of the artist," the Navajo answered, "is to provide what life does not.

to behave as if the thermostats on their imaginations were set permanently on high.

It was Jefferson's genius that kept the American Revolution from being sucked into the tunnel faster than it was. Jefferson had red hair. Nothing is implied here.

That's the value of artists, isn't it? Even when they aren't aware of it, they're dreaming our dreams for us.

Sandwiches were invented by the Earl of Sandwich, popcorn was invented by the Earl of Popcorn, and salad dressing by the Oil of Vinegar.

We each took a fierce delight in introducing the other to some new idea or development, the next amazing artist or record album, always hustling to out-avant the other's garde. It was exciting, stimulating, but also draining, especially when coupled as it was with mutual romantic jealousy, arguably the dumbest, most useless of human emotions.

a novel that does its own stunts

Chappe also had all sorts of ambitious plans for his invention; he hadn't intended its use to be so predominantly military in nature, and wanted to promote its employment in business.

Image of a Roman wax tablet, which looks very like an iPad.

He proposed a steam-powered pneumatic tube system to carry telegraph forms the short distance from the Stock Exchange to the main telegraph office.

Post Horses and Conveyances of every description may be ordered by the electric telegraph to be in readiness on the arrival of a train, at either Paddington or Slough Station.