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Quotes About Innovation

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
~ Michel de Montaigne
One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.
~ Mira Grant
But man invents nothing God did not create first.
~ Mitch Albom
We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.
~ Moses Harvey
The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The average person would have quit at the first failure. That's why there have been many average men and only one Edison.
~ Napoleon Hill
It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.
~ Napoleon Hill
All men are creative but few are artists.
~ Paul Goodman
I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.
~ Paul McCartney
The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.
~ Paul Valery
Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.
~ Pete Seeger
Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.
~ Pete Townshend
Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.
~ Peter Drucker
I'm a low-tech man in a high-tech world.
~ Phil Robertson
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
~ Pliny the Elder
Helmut Lang is an amazing man - always striving, always moving forward.
~ Polly Allen Mellen
Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.
~ Orson Scott Card
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a new method.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson