Quotes About Innovation

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Necessity might be the mother of invention, but restriction is the mother of efficiency.

It's a cause championed by the tech billionaire Peter Thiel, the TED Talk darling Aubrey de Gray, Google's billion-dollar Calico longevity lab and investment by Amazon's Jeff Bezos. The National Academy of Medicine, an independent group, recently

Recognize that every 'out front' maneuver you make is going to be lonely. If you feel entirely comfortable, then you're not far enough ahead to do any good. That warm sense of everything going well is usually the body temperature at the center of the herd.

I've gone to China, bought a manufacturing company and moved it to America. Now China wants to buy back some of that new technology from me. That's a great story for America.

To win, you've got to put the ball in the macramé.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.

Theory is meaningless to a genius.

The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. That is why many of the earthly miracles have had their genesis in humble surroundings."

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There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal

Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.

However inventive humans turn out to be, they will never invent their way around the laws of thermodynamics. That fundamental truth is denied by standard infinite-growth theory, which blithely projects productivity gains from technological innovation indefinitely into the future.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

A genius is the one most like himself.