Quotes About Innovation

We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field?

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.

As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit. It will be vigorously creative in pure science where its contributions will compare with those of the universities.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

In my opinion, neither organisms nor organizations evolve slowly and surely into something better, but drift until some small change occurs which has immediate and overwhelming significance. The special role of the human being is not to wait for these favorable accidents but deliberately to introduce the small change that will have great significance.

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch--not opposition, but indifference--in society.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful.

Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.

Get over here. Sheldon's had an idea." "Who's Sheldon?", said Isabelle.

A forty-foot worm?" Will muttered to Jem as they moved through the Italian garden, their boots - thanks to a pair of Soundless runes - making no noise on the gravel. "Think of the size of the fish we could catch." Jem's lips twitched. "It's not funny, you know." "It is a bit.

He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.

and don't start your own line of glitter and try to sell it at Sephora.

It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.

Songwriters are the architects of the music industry. Without a songwriter there could not, and would not, be a music industry. We create the blueprint.

Acquiring preemptive knowledge about emerging technologies is the best way to ensure that we have a say in the making of our future.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

The six most expensive words in business are: We've always done it that way.

Creativity took precedence over accepted beliefs, and going out on a limb seemed invariably more attractive than security.