Quotes About Innovation

Where's jazz going? I don't know. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

In the history of art, unlike that of science, what comes after is not necessarily better than what came before.

The logic of an arms race came to rule in art: and legions of untalented hacks who came after Miró devoted themselves to thinking about what had never been done before rather than about what they wanted to express.

The 'smoke-filled room' as political reality is now as dead as Prohibition.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything

All the resources we need are in the mind.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.

The question grows more troubling with each passing year how much of what yesterday's science fiction regarded as unspeakably dreadful has become today's award-winning research

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Accident is nature's way of starting a design; design is a man's way of looking at the accidents.

Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.

He turns revolt into a style, prolongsThe impulse to a habit of the time.

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

Yes, we respect the past. At times we revere the past. But we can't live in the past.

The churches were purposeless. They were engaged in an activity called, "This is the way we've always done it.

The most pervasive and common thread of our autopsies was that the deceased churches lived for a long time with the past as hero. They held on more tightly with each progressive year. They often clung to things of the past with desperation and fear. And when any internal or external force tried to change the past, they responded with anger and resolution: "We will die before we change.

Being an investment banker has given me a front row seat at the center of innovation