Quotes About Innovation

Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.

although there may occur a few stages in his argument which are so trite that he can go through them by rote, much of his argument is likely never to have been constructed before. He has to meet new objections, interpret new evidence and make connections between elements in the situation which had not previously been co-ordinated. In short he has to innovate, and where he innovates he is not operating from habit.

The W-Bomb was to be the first weapon of war that could both sink a ship and cure a hangover.

Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

Some elements appear in this picture which would be decisive in Klimt's subsequent work: for instance, the use of gold and the transformation of anatomy into ornamentation, of ornamentation into anatomy.

By the time there's another invasion of artificially intelligent dung-eating robotic probes from outer space, maybe their uber-children will have devised a way to save our planet.

I cannot abide red tape. It never strangles bad ideas, only good ones.

While many things have changed, some things haven't changed enough.

India's latest latrine triumph will improve the lives of many of its citizens. Given what else has been going on in the rest of the world, any reports of currently "defecation-free" zones, literal or metaphorical, are welcome.

What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do something you've never done before? There's only one way to find out.

When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line.

When actors encounter a mishap during a stage performance, they transform it for good purpose by employing a technique called, "use the difficulty." How can you "use the difficulty" in your life?

If you built the box, you can also break it down.

Want more fizz in your life? Shake things up.

The GE press release went to the papers the very next day: "Scientists of the General Electric Company, flying an airplane over Greylock Mountain in western Massachusetts yesterday, conducted experiments with a cloud three miles long, and were successful in transforming the cloud into snow.

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.

Tous les genres sont bons, Hors le genre ennuyeux." (All genres are good, Except the boring one.

I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

En todos los grandes hombres de ciencia, existe el soplo de la fantasía, madre de las intuiciones geniales.

El hombre es más artista que la naturaleza.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.