Quotes About Innovation

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

Imagination is the highest kite you can fly." — Lauren Bacall

I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.

Art isn't about where it ends up. It's about the creation.

SnowAngel: who's Bill Gates?

The poop became a poop mountain; the pee became a pee ocean. And then somehow a Poop and Pee Airline was invented to fly travelers to Poop Mountain and Pee Ocean, although the code name for the airline was Dolphin Airlines, to keep the unsuspecting from being tipped off.

Some of the world's richest and most famous people flew on the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg,

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven.

In pursuit of his goal, he attracted navigators, shipwrights, astronomers, pilots, cosmographers, and cartographers

They designed a new type of ship, the small, maneuverable caravel

With their shallow draught and movable sails, Henry's caravels could set a course close to the wind

The ships were among the most complicated machines of their day

accounts from Magellan's time mention their daunting stern castles, their multiple decks, and the profusion of obras muertas, or "dead wood

who distinguished themselves as scientists, artisans, merchants, scholars

thanks to the legacy of Prince Henry the Navigator, algebra, geometry, astronomy, and navigation.

the castaways evolved a plan. They would drag the planks over the mountains until they reached the river

Beyond his library, Dee introduced crucial mathematical symbols such as +, –, and ÷ to England.

With this entirely factual approach, Pigafetta broke with a tradition that reached back to antiquity.

Only Seville was capable of providing Magellan with the technology, the labor, and the financial resources

The quest began as early as 1419, when Prince Henry, the third son of João I and his English wife, Philippa

Known as Prince Henry the Navigator, he rarely went to sea himself; instead, he inspired others to conquer the ocean.

The uncertainty, the void, is the perfect place from which to create. It is the place where you can re-invent yourself.

No matter where you are in your life, you must do what you love, and fuck what anybody says about what you do. If you are an artist, maybe your 19th century romantic style is not what is popular now, but you might just discover that in ten years, everyone will pay whatever amount you ask for your paintings. Or, if you love the Impressionist movement, you might be the person who starts a Neo-Impressionism movement.