Quotes About Innovation

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

The simplest things give me ideas.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Skate to where the puck is going and not to where it's been.

What isn't tried won't work.

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Marconi invented radio, but Ted Husing knew what to do with it.

Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.

As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Progress means taking risks, for you can't steal home and keep your foot on third base.

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.

The future is the shape of things to come.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.

Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.

Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.