Quotes About Innovation

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

Anything can be art. Anthing can be self-expression. Now you take the weapon and run with it.

In the words of the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, "Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them."19

Risk literacy is the basic knowledge required to deal with a modern technological society. The breakneck speed of technological innovation will make risk literacy as indispensable in the twenty-first century as reading and writing were in previous centuries. Without it, you jeopardize your health and money, or may be manipulated into unrealistic fears and hopes.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm To be alive at all involves some risk. Harold Macmillan

we can find a balanced way forward that will allow us to embrace technology but not become technology, to use it as a tool and not as a purpose.

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.

See if she can stick her own straw in a Capri Sun (this should be on state testing).

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Luis Bunuel made great movies.

Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, 'How did he do it? He must be a genius!

And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

Certi tesori esistono soltanto per chi batte per primo una strada nuova.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

processor performance doubles roughly every eighteen months, but memory performance doubles roughly every seven years.

Jerry Sternin) scoprì gli esempi positivi e li diffuse in una sorta di contagio benefico. Si concentrò su quello che funzionava per riprodurlo, piuttosto che su quello che non funzionava per cercare, inutilmente, di ripararlo.

F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70 years ago), truncated to as few as 60 balls (in Hong Kong every year), and remained recognisable in each instance?

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.