Quotes About Innovation

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.

Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

Besides, interesting things happen along borders—transitions—not in the middle where everything is the same.

There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

The opening screen of T'Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no guilt about this since he had heard that Google Earth in turn was based on an idea from some old science fiction novel

It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.

Wartime lipstick is necessarily cobbled together from whatever tailings and gristle were left over once all the good stuff was use to grease propeller shafts. A florid and cloying scent is needed to conceal its unspeakable mineral and animal origins. It is the smell of War.

What if the places you went and the things you encountered in your work were more interesting than what was available in the physical world around you?

When Hiro learned how to do this, way back fifteen years ago, a hacker could sit down and write an entire piece of software by himself. Now, that's no longer possible. Software comes out of factories, and hackers are, to a greater or lesser extent, assembly-line workers. Worse yet, they may become managers who never get to write any code themselves.

He was already thinking about the videos he was going to make to teach his baby about calculus when he climaxed.

Ng Security Industries Semi-Autonomous Guard Unit #A-367 lives in a pleasant black-and-white Metaverse where porterhouse steaks grow on trees, dangling at head level from low branches, and blood-drenched Frisbees fly through the crisp, cool air for no reason at all, until you catch them.

The suit's got a cervical airbag that blows up when you fall off the board, so you can bounce on your head. Besides, helmets feel weird. They say it doesn't affect your hearing, but it does.