Quotes About Innovation

Watches have watch makers, paintings have painters, designs have designers, and creation has a creator

Look at these buttons," one soldier said, fingering his gray wool jacket. "I soaked them overnight in a saucer filled with urine." Chemicals in the urine oxidized the brass, giving it the patina of buttons from the 1860s. "My wife woke up this morning, sniffed the air and said, 'Tim, you've been peeing on your buttons again.

Those who got the twentieth century right, whether in anticipation [..] or as contemporary observations, had to be able to imagine a world for which there was no precedent.

Dissent and dissidence are overwhelmingly the work of the young. It is not by chance that the men and women who initiated the French Revolution, like the reformers and planners of the New Deal and postwar Europe, were distinctly younger than those who had gone before. Rather than resign themselves, young people are more likely to look at a problem and demand that it be solved.

The second dilemma we face concerns the social consequences of technological change.

where the 'Chicago boys' got their ideas, we shall find that the greatest influence was exercised by a handful of foreigners, all of them immigrants from central Europe: Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Joseph Schumpeter, Karl Popper, and Peter Drucker.

If you do what you have always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

People had gone west leaving behind all sorts of trouble; what they found in California was the space and freedom to create new trouble.

Men can live without air a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for about two months — and without a new thought for years on end.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.

there are NO rules, merely suggestions

Je rêvai, non d'une ville figée, mais de la ville à venir.

I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.

He'd pull a door off its hinges rather than work out how to turn a key.

Scientific advancement is never without loss.

I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.

Nothing fails like success. In other words, when a challenge in life is met by a response that is equal to it, you have success. But when the challenge moves to a higher level, the old, once successful response no longer works—it fails; thus, nothing fails like success.

You've got to jump off cliffs—and build your wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY

If you eliminate all the logical solutions to a problem, then the illogical solution—even though it's impossible—has to be the right one.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

As Stephen Katz, former CISO of Citibank, once said, "Controls don't slow the business down; like brakes on a car, controls allow you to go faster.

Leadership is courageous, authentic influence that creates enduring value.

If the disruptive change brought about by the Internet challenged you, brace yourself: multiple emerging technologies will combine to create an unprecedented period of change in the next few years.