Quotes About Innovation

the distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when it was made clear by Erasistratos.

art stirred the imagination – my God, it allowed the imagination! – in a way that reality rarely does.

I have a habit of letting my imagination run away from me. It always comes back though . . . loaded with endless possibilities.

Build your roads on today, because the path of tomorrow doesn't exist.

Push your boundaries beyond the ordinary, "Create a vision for the life you really want and make it a reality.

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed...

And, as a mere matter of ficfect, I tell of myself how I popo possess the ripest littlums wifukie around the globelettes globes (...)

Saas and taas and specis bizaas.

He is a bold man who, in his writing, dares to alter---even further to distort---what he has seen and heard.

Upwap and dump em

before all this has time to end the golden age must return with its vengeance. Man will become dirigible...

Couldn't they invent something automatic so that the wheel itself much handier? Well but that fellow would lose his job then? Well but then another fellow would get a job making the new invention?

a man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery

The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.

Creativity implies deviance from past procedure. Habits are consistent with it. Habits often destroy creative ideas before they see the light of day. Habits include conceptual blocks, which not only occur because of the mechanisms of our limited brains but also are imparted by socialization, education, and professional specialization. Creativity requires System 2 thinking and more work for your mind.

Leaders don't have to change history, but they do have to change business as usual. To them, the status quo is unacceptable. Leaders challenge the process. They search for opportunities, and they experiment and take risks. Exemplary leaders also know that they have to be willing to make some personal sacrifices in service of a higher purpose.

Approaching White Oak Swamp from the north, he sent a crew to rebuild the bridge over the creek. When Union artillery and sharpshooters prevented this, Jackson lay down and took a nap.

Yankee" in all three senses of the word: Americans; residents of northern states in particular; and New Englanders especially. Of 143 important inventions patented in the United States from 1790 to 1860, 93 percent came out of the free states and nearly half from New England alone—

Cultural categories, in fact, need not constrain us since they can always be used against themselves to open up new possibilities.

The big break from the past may come when speech recognition software is perfected. At that point we'll be able to write simply by talking: Speak into your computer's recorder, and it'll do all the messy work of punctuation and spelling. This could result in the elimination of the keyboard, [Dennis] Baron speculates. 'We'd get back to oral composition--reinventing Homer.

writer or a musician, not knowing that it was possible

The library of the future may very well be twofold: an underground repository for precious old books published prior to 1980 which no one sees or handles, plus a crisp reading disk to which chips from any library in the world are delivered electronically as you dial for them.

It's easy to get into a rut, which is simply a familiar pattern that feels comfortable. If you truly want to grow as a person and lead a successful life, you have to get out of the 'box.