Quotes About Innovation

To destroy abuses is not sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the wind is still there.

Invading armies can be resisted, invading ideas cannot be.

What is admirable in the clash of young minds is that no one can foresee the spark that sets off an explosion or predict what kind of explosion it will be.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future.

Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come.

architecture is dead, with no ghost to return, killed by the printed book because it did not last as long and cost more.

Cuando la ciencia todavía soñaba, la poesía ya actuaba

If there is no sun,one must be made

You see things and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were And say, 'Why not?'" —George Bernard Shaw

she focused on the pale blue yarn and the way the knitting needles dove in and out of the soft strands, creating every moment something that hadn't existed before.

you don't need money or weapons or a big platform to change the world. Sometimes, something as simple as a pen and a bit of imagination can alter the course of history.

must honor the past without turning our backs on the future.

We didn't need a new house after all. When something isn't working, you don't always need to tear down the whole structure. Sometimes you just pull down a wall, reinvent, put some new skin on the old bones. And it's lovely.

Rap is something you do. Hip-hop is something you live.

No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press, and Protestantism was its first viral cultural phenomenon.

MIT economist David Autor has written, "but a serious challenge in determining who owns it and how to share it. Our chief economic problem will be one of distribution, not scarcity.

That's why Occupy was so cool at first," Waverly says, "because it was actually different from what'd been done before. But most protests seem like cover versions of old songs. Like we're all in a sixties tribute band.

technology that seems magical and miraculous can encourage and confirm credulous people's belief in make-believe magic and miracles.

No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press

I feel like we're a very good top-10 car, but we really have to work hard and find a unique way to get these top fives.

It strikes me that the only real reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We've been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it'll do.

Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.

I like the comfort in knowing that the Afro American invented rock and roll yet has only been rewarded or awarded for their accomplishments when conforming to the white man's standards. I like the comfort in knowing that the Afro American has once again been the only race that has brought a new form of original music to this decade: hip-hop/rap.