Quotes About Innovation

Necessity, it turns out, isn't really the mother of invention; it's the mother of the process that turns an invention into a product, and in late-eighteenth-century Europe, that mother was ready.

Always fuck with people's expectations, sunshine. It's good for their circulation.

Where I'm seeing a dead end, he's seeing a brilliant new twist to his amazing story. I wish I could take my holidays inside Steve's head.

In traditional science fiction, according to Robert Heinlein, there are three lines of thought that drive writers: "What if—" [What if we built a colony on Mars?] "If only—" [If only we could fix past mistakes by travelling through time.] And "If this goes on—

Fuk "youth" ... how about a fountain of SMART ?

and sleepily thought of how technology was no longer the source of wonderment and possibility it had been...

There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.

Engineers have had to invent a new category for the commuter trains of Mumbai, whose Western Railway Line is the world's single most crowded public transport corridor. When fourteen or more people are standing per square meter - above 275 percent capacity - the train has attained "Super Dense Crush Load." In Mumbai, of course, this means people are actually sitting on the roof and hanging out the open doors.

It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.

Everything was almost the same with her, but she went about her business in a way that put me in mind of an old matchbook. You can scratch the head against the strip in the same way you always have, but you are not going to get any kind of spark.

After a year, I was ready to get this show on the road, creating a new generation with an updated set of rules and regulations

Leaders (Authors) are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. -Robert Jarvik

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, and I ended up … making things that I think can change the world.

what is the role of human scientists in an age when the frontiers of scientific inquiry have moved beyond the comprehension of humans?

We need not be intimidated by the accomplishments of metahuman science. We should always remember that the technologies that made metahumans possible were originally invented by humans, and they were no smarter than we.

But Whetstone is positioning Remem as more than a handy virtual assistant: they want it to take the place of your natural memory.

I can vividly recall the way, after he had connected its arterial hoses to a wall-mounted lung he kept in the laboratory, he was able to manipulate the actuating rods that protruded from the arm's ragged base, and in response the hand would open and close fitfully.

I have given a version of that first lecture I saw, during which I opened the casing of my own arm and directed my students' attention to the rods that contracted and extended when I wiggled my fingers.

You will inhale Exhalation in a single, stunned sitting, because true genius doesn't come along nearly as often as advertised.' Blake Crouch

The original Drayta's owner trained him using a puzzle generator pirated from the Five Dynasties continent on the Real Space platform and then released copies to the public domain.

The hand's dexterity is the physical manifestation of the mind's ingenuity,

We all keep spare sets of full lungs in our homes, but when one is alone, the act of opening one's chest and replacing one's lungs can seem little better than a chore.

right now your digients, amazing as they are, have no marketable job skills, and you can't predict when they'll get any. How else are you going to raise the money you need?" How many women have asked themselves the same question, Ana wonders. "So it's the oldest profession.