Quotes About Innovation

That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.

We are the people who won the Second World War and saved the world. We went to the moon. We gave the world the cell phone and Bruce Springsteen. There's no telling what we can accomplish.

For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

You can only win the 'war' with ideas, not with spending cuts

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.

We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films.

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way

People need new things to excite them, new inventions, new ideas, new art, new drugs, if there are no new things, then they resort to war

Weapons and technology may help win wars, but it is only ideas that have the power to truly change the world.

It's the young who will lead us to the future."Free Trader 4 - Battle for the Amazon

The world is not static and the status quo is not sacred.

Now comes the reign of iron — and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than th

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. ... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

Britain wouldn't have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.