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Quotes About Innovation

Captains of Industry.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
~ Thomas Carlyle
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product
~ Thomas Carlyle
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
~ Thomas Carlyle
That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.
~ Thomas Carper
Football is an ever changing game and my team and I must adapt out game and play to fit all new rules and current rule changes"
~ Thomas Christiansen
Again and again Someone in the crowd wakes up. He has no ground in the crowd And he emerges according to much broader laws. He carries strange customs with him and demands room for bold gestures. The future speaks ruthlessly through him. —Rainer Maria Rilke (Über Kunst, 1899)
~ Thomas D. Zweifel
So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.
~ Thomas Dolby
We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
~ Vijay Kumar
You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.
~ Josh Duhamel
There are lots of people building the next TransferWise, not in a sense of competing with us but in a sense of building large, successful companies that are doing something important. I just enjoy helping these founders navigate the journey.
~ Taavet Hinrikus
For me, my phone is a one-stop shop; I do everything on my phone - email, browsing, listening to music, reading, navigation and using smart apps. Maps, I use that a lot. I think that's the best app ever.
~ Diana Penty
Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.
~ Willy Ley
We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
~ Nat Friedman
I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.
~ Dave McClure
When I first started doing work on how the Internet is affecting commerce, like a lot of people, I was really excited by this nearly perfect market.
~ Erik Brynjolfsson
Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more.
~ Max Levchin
From their '61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their wake the songbook and sound for their career. It's the musical trough from which nearly every musician drinks.
~ Shawn Amos
When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that convergence, something amazing will happen.
~ Rony Abovitz
We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.
~ Tina Weymouth