Quotes About Innovation

What counts is not the pen used for writing but the poetry that is written. The reason we take interest in an automobile engine is not because it makes wheels turn; it is because it takes us places that we could not reach by foot. The turning wheels are just the mechanism of an instrument that allows us to journey.

For the first time in the history of mankind, an experiment is made. Experimental science begins with Galileo.

Science is a continual exploration of ways of thinking.

In the effort to imagine what has not yet been imagined.

Science begins with a vision.

Only someone in his twenties can take such delirious propositions seriously. You have to be a twentysomething to believe that they can be turned into a theory of the world.

El pensamiento científico se nutre de la capacidad de ver las cosas de manera distinta de cómo las veíamos antes

Thus, it is possible to measure time by simply counting the oscillations of a pendulum. It seems such an obvious idea, but it took Galileo to find it; it had not occurred to anyone before him. So it goes, with science.

If you want to truly advance the path of knowledge, you must not just revere your master, study, and build on his teachings. You must seek out his mistakes.

If Planck is the father of the theory, Einstein is the parent who nurtured it.

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

posed a classic problem:You'd

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.

When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

If you look at history, you see that human flourishing exploded beginning about the time two things first appeared: the new American republic and free market capitalism. If you plot the history of human prosperity going back over a thousand years, what you see is a flat line hovering just above zero until the late eighteenth century; then the line turns upward, and it hasn't turned back.

Believe me, if it can be digitized, it will be.

When you wake the town this morning, ring the bells as if you were the greatest musician on earth. Make each stroke count. Invent sounds you've never heard before. Reach deep down inside you for inspiration. Make your grandfather pround.

I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.