Quotes About Innovation

Change brings opportunity.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead?

Ideas are the source of all things

Old words are reborn with new faces.

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

We have to become more digitized and based on data, but ideas and passion will last forever.

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It's like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

All Disruption starts with introspection.