Quotes About Innovation

La sorpresa es el móvil de cada descubrimiento.

If you want to stay relevant, you're going to have to dive into the domain of the business you're in

Set your sights higher. Don't think of yourself as a programmer at a specific company—after all, it's not likely that you'll be at the same place forever—but as a participating member of an industry. You are a craftsperson or an artist. You have something to share beyond the expense-reporting application you're developing for your human resources department or the bugs you've got stacked up in your company's issue-tracking system.

I learned that no matter how cool the technology seemed to be, it was valuable only if it solved a real problem that was urgent and provided quantifiable benefits. - Vik Chadha

I've always had way too much energy so I'm always looking for new things to do to channel that energy.

The eighth gift is Imagination. May it nourish your visions and dreams.

Creativity is the essence of fencing.

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism.

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Progress, that great heresy of degenerates.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

I see. Tell me, monsieur, do you like a challenge? To solve a unique problem?" "Yes, indeed, I love to come up with a solution for any architectural problem," said Lucien, "and the more challenging, the better." He

His special gift was the ability to see the essence of a worthwhile suggestion and to relate it to what was already in existence or planned. Then he would encourage and shape the new project, repeatedly redesigning the curriculum so that a new department or course could have a comfortable place in which to grow and offer it benefits.

Passage into new forms, overleaping the bars of time and space, reversal of the laws of inanimate intelligent existence, had been mine to perform and to witness.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man

Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

Genius is of no country.