Quotes About Innovation

One night I had a dream, and in that dream a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past

The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.

We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon.

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.

Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.