Quotes About Innovation

Yet I believe the Google system of the world will fail, indeed be swept away in our time (and I am seventy-eight!). It will fail because its every major premise will fail.

All entrepreneurial and technological ventures, according to a canonical paper by the productivity theorist Robert Gordon, face the closing of the world's "productivity frontier.

Under capitalism, economic power flows not to the intellectual, who manipulates ideas and basks in their light, but to the man who gives himself to his ideas and tests them with his own wealth and work.

If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.

Novelties please less than they impress.

Thou shalt believe in Milton, Dryden, Pope; Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey; Because the first is crazed beyond all hope, The second drunk, the third so quaint and mouthy.

Speak the truth and you will be conspicuous. The human race loves novelty.

The only way to stay ahead of the curve is to think so boldly that almost everyone considers you a screwball.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.

Art is the sex of imagination.

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted

Growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I was fascinated by mechanical and electrical gadgets—anything with a cord, a plug, a battery, a light, a motor.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do…

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

We also like obsolete styles because the past is dead, and hence contains no surprises.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Art is not a democracy.