Quotes About Innovation

What those anti-cookie-baking mothers wanted me to do was turn baseball into soccer.

Now the 1990s seem like a period when the world was starting to go crazy, but not so crazy that it was unmanageable or irreparable. It was the end of the twentieth century, but also the end to an age when we controlled technology more than technology controlled us.

Not all crazy people are brilliant, but almost all brilliant people are crazy.

There's even an 1892 novel called Golf in the Year 2000 that (somewhat incredibly) predicts the advent of televised sports.

Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary.

the slow cancellation of the future and the fast homogenization of the past]

And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.

It sometimes seems like 1995 was the year the future began. This is particularly true if the last book you happened to read was W. Joseph Campbell's 1995: The Year the Future Began.

accelerated culture does not respond well to the nonobvious.

My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.

We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done...

At some point, Wax mentioned how appalling it seemed that those brilliant minds who could invent miracle medicines and nuclear fission and dazzling computer special effects, they had such a complete lack of imagination when it came to spending their money: granite countertops and luxury cars. Talking about that stuff, Wax driving, the madder he got, you could watch the speedo creep up past eighty, ninety, a hundred.

Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people.

Our real discoveries come from chaos. From going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

Me, personally, I tell dude 137 how I'm adding an embossed slogan to my dildos. Cast in high-relief going around the base, it's going to say, The Dick That Killed Cassie Wright... On the thickest part, so if you twist it the letters of the writing stimulate the clit.

No­body wants to wor­ship you if you have the same prob­lems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hang­nails, as a reg­ular per­son. You have to be ev­ery­thing reg­ular peo­ple aren't. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what peo­ple are too afraid to be. Be­come whom they ad­mire.

Slang is the writer's palette of colors.

La verdadera inteligencia empieza cuando uno deja de citar a los demás...