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Quotes About Innovation

Trigonometry is a sine of the times.
~ Author Unknown
Fill paper as you please with triangles and squares...
~ Thomas Jefferson, 1786
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
~ Edward John Phelps, 1889
Art and composition tolerate no conventional fetters: mind and soul soar above them.
~ Joseph Haydn, 1779
If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be net neutrality.
~ Mark Cuban, tweet, 2014
The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.
~ Author Unknown
Poetry is never abandoned, it is only remixed.
~ James Schwartz, unverified
Couldn't you play better tennis with the net down?
~ Carl Sandburg
VERS LIBRE. A device for making poetry easier to write and harder to read.
~ H. L. Mencken
Modern poets mix much water with their ink.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Medical History & Future. — A Short History of Medicine: 2000 B.C. – "Here, eat this root." 1000 B.C. – "That root is heathen, say this prayer." 1850 A.D. – "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion." 1940 A.D. – "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill." 1985 A.D. – "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic." 2000 A.D. – "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root."
~ Author Unknown
One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.
~ American Proverb
...the new life of psychiatry is with us...
~ Sigmund Freud, 1907
Newsflash: air quotes are out.
~ Mia King, Good Things, 2006
Writing with Scissors (collecting, note-keeping, remaking)
~ Peter Stillman
The most original wits borrow from one another.
~ Voltaire
Let's have some new clichés!
~ Samuel Goldwyn, unverified
The radio is another wonderful discovery. It has made the world as small as a house.
~ Frank C. Laubach, 1947
The radio is, indeed, a great blessing of the modern times. It has become a necessity now.
~ Badruddin G. Hussain, 1961
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.
~ Author Unknown
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
~ Samuel Johnson
I don't think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we're stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians, and Caesarians.
~ Pat McNelis, unverified
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
~ Homer Saint-Gaudens
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though live ideas are born out of it. Worms, also, feed upon corpses.
~ Miguel de Unamuno