Quotes About Innovation

The lead of the first major Times article written by copy boy KURT EICHENWALD, 1986 LINDEN—Fuzzy peach navel is the recommended drink at the Old Tavern Inn here, one of the latest and most unlikely ripple effects of the American auto industry's march toward high technology.

Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.

Inspiration,' the false artist says, 'it just comes to me.' And it shows. His pictures are as like as the four walls of his room -- morning, evening, midnight, noon. For myself, I have to search for it. The whole world is your palate, but only if you reach, take hold of what you need and pocket it.

On account of bad weather, German revolution took place in music

Werfen Sie das häßliche Kind weg, gnädige Frau; ich mache Ihnen ein neues, ein viel schöneres.

I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

Dreams are today's answers for tomorrow's questions.

Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

David," Magic Johnson said in the eighties, "has this unbelievable gift for seeing around the corner before anyone else.

Boldness in itself is genius.

They use a fossil fuel in a most inefficient manner, even though I am certain that, even with their primitive technology, they know better. I think they may even hide efficiency inventions, as nobody could be that stupid.

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.

A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.

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One of his mechanics who despaired when he could not get spare parts for the tanks once announced casually that most of them were ordinary parts he used to order from Sears, Roebuck. Patton seized upon the remark. When it proved impossible to obtain the parts through regular channels—partly because of the red tape and partly because the Army simply did not have any at that stage—he ordered them from Sears, Roebuck and paid the bill out of his own pocket.

I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.