Quotes About Innovation

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.

There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.

Obviously, as a marketer, I love to work with brands that aren't static, that have life and personality.

I do think evolution is an important aspect of keeping a tradition alive. If it freezes and remains very static in its form, it dies, and so a natural evolution has to occur.

No government in any country can run on static definitions of economic thinking.

Static strikers do not exist anymore.

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

Like Grand Central Station, which is a marvelous building, the design and engineering of the Oculus will endure for many generations to come.

We continue to not only operate the International Space Station but to increase its capabilities as well as commercial contributions.

The first significant work I did was a railway station in Zurich called Stadelhofen.

I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World.

Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station.

Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.

I always thought about 'Station to Station' as an approach. It was about creating an alternative platform for culture where different mediums could co-exist.

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

The 'Station to Station' film is made entirely out of one-minute films, and each of the 62 minutes is a completely different person, place or encounter.

The space station here is a magical place and an incredible science facility.

The building of the International Space Station is something wonderful, and it will show us how to take the next step beyond low-Earth orbit.

What we get from building a space station, the economic return, the science return, is very, very important to our nation, to our economy.

The International Space Station is a great place to live for a year.

I chose a career in the kitchen because the thought of sitting and doing the same thing every day and being stationary was not something that I could get my head around.

'When Doves Cry' came out - it sounded like nothing that was on the radio. 'Let's Go Crazy' was number one on R&B stations, and there's nothing that's been like that on radio since.

When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.