Quotes About Innovation

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.

Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate.

I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.