Quotes About Innovation

The escape from habitual culture must always be temporary if you expect to be permitted back into that culture.

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

A recipe is a guideline. Adding, subtracting, evolving it - that is part of the pleasure.

In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to change, but came to expected and prize it.

Hamilton may truly be "the man who made modern America.

You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.

I turned off my tape-recorder and just sat looking at him for a moment, this strange time-traveller from the year 1890 or so, who remembered when there were no cars, no electric lights, no airplanes, no state of Arizona.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Let your imagination take you wherever you want to be. This piece of canvas truly is your world.

An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash.

My inspiration is art... because without art, we would just be stuck with reality.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Good architecture lets nature in.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

The cat was created when the lion sneezed.

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.

The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary.

Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.

My computer kept beating the pants off me at chess, until I discovered that it was no match against me at kickboxing.

It's not a bug — it's an undocumented feature.

If Bill Gates had a dime for every time Windows crashes… oh, wait a minute, he already does.

Don't think you're on the right road just because it's a well-beaten path.

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.