Quotes About Innovation

If you keep thinking your usual thoughts and doing your usual habitual actions, then the NEW and DIFFERENT cannot enter into your LIFE!

A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Man's First Mistake: The Wheel

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting ... but whatever it's worth I did it.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

Architecture is slow and therefore requires anticipatory design.

architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller

the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.

For Mia, however, the photographs were only a vague approximation of what she wanted to express, and she soon found herself not only altering the prints – with everything from ballpoint pen to splashes of laundry detergent – but experimenting with the camera itself, bending its limited range to her desires.

Oh, we don't use rabbits anymore," the pretty young doctor laughed, slipping the needle into the soft crook of Marilyn's arm. "We use frogs now.

Oh, we don't use rabbits anymore," the pretty young doctor laughed, slipping the needle into the soft crook of Marilyn's arm. "We use frogs now. Much faster and easier. Isn't modern science wonderful?

A toothpick, inserted into a standard keyhole and snapped off flush, is a marvelous thing.

Anything had potential to transform, and this, to her, seemed the true meaning of art.

as technology has changed, so have our tools.