Quotes About Innovation

I don't know where ideas come from. They come from outer space or God, if you like, or from my subconscious mind. But I never go ou self-consciously looking for a story.

I don't like straight lines: men make them.

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

you'll be given a tape machine which is about the size of a box of popcorn. It weighs six pounds. With it, you'll be given sixty tape clips which are about four inches long. The equipment will fit inside a coat pocket without a bulge. It's a triumph of modern technology.

One day he decided that his liking for poetry could not be fully expressed in just reading poetry or listening to poets reading on phonograph records. He decided to take the plumbing out of his house and completely replace it with poetry, and so he did.

I think that I would find automobiles a little more interesting if they carried their own parking space with them.

Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.

Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.

Science] works! Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design of planes on science, they fly. If you base the design of rockets on science, they reach the moon. It works... bitches.

You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being ... Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.

For more than three thousand million years, DNA has been the only replicator worth talking about in the world. But it does not necessarily hold these monopoly rights for all time. Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself, the new replicators will tend to take over, and start a new kind of evolution of their own.

Given a hundred clones of Carl Sagan, we might have some hope for the next century.

if a design is good enough to evolve once, the same design principle is good enough to evolve twice, from different starting points, in different parts of the animal kingdom.

No sane creator, setting out from scratch to design a flat-fish, would have conceived on his drawing board the absurd distortion of the head needed to bring both eyes round to one side.

As Arthur C. Clarke put it, in his Third Law: 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.' The miracles wrought by our technology would have seemed to the ancients no less remarkable than the tales of Moses parting the waters, or Jesus walking upon them.

Why did it take so long for a Darwin to arrive on the scene? What delayed humanity's tumbling to that luminously simple idea which seems, on the face of it, so much easier to grasp than the mathematical ideas given us by Newton two centuries earlier - or, indeed, by Archimedes two millennia earlier?

Rather than propose a new theory or unearth a new fact, often the most important contribution a scientist can make is to discover a new way of seeing old theories or facts.

They are the outward and visible (audible, etc.) manifestations of the memes within the brain.

Bir ça??n dini, bir sonrakinin edebi eÄŸlencesidir. Ralph Waldo

If you push novelty of language and metaphor far enough, you can end up with a new way of seeing.

Most scientists are bored by what they have already discovered. It is ignorance that drives them on.

Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world championship. Humanitiy needs a lesson in humility.

Could it have been the drawing of maps that boosted our ancestors beyond the critical threshold which the other apes just failed to cross?

cherish your creative spark, because there's no one else who can light it back up for you when it burns out.