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Quotes About Innovation

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.
~ Sigmund Freud
Man is the only animal to borrow tools.
~ Tim Allen
Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.
~ W. H. Auden
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
~ Albert Claude
And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.
~ Anthony Quinn
Man, not the earth, makes civilization.
~ Ariel Durant
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
~ Arnold J. Toynbee
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
~ Ayn Rand
To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.
~ Steve Jobs
From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
~ Tom Hanks
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
~ William Feather
If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.
~ Winslow Homer
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
~ Havelock Ellis
Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.
~ Jeremy Bentham
Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.
~ John Carroll
If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today
~ John Sculley
The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.
~ John Zachary Young
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
~ Jules Verne
We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.
~ Christopher Nolan
A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
~ Erasmus Darwin
I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.
~ Frank Sinatra
It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg