Quotes About Innovation

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if he be not 'singular' or 'distant,' or whatever you like to call him.

Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!

A man with no imaginations has no wings.

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.

Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.

The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

Man is, above all, he who creates.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--