Quotes About Innovation

We have it in our power to begin the world over again." -- Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Question asked of Thomas Perry. What is the most important thing that you have learned in your writing experience, so far? "If any writer is going to be remembered after he's gone, it will be for the parts of his work that are absolutely original, and would never have existed if he hadn't written them. So if you're writing a scene that you've read, watched, or heard before, then you're wasting your time and your reader's.

Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Shall I project a world?

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. Besides, it took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen.

We must dare to invent the future.

Per ottenere un cambiamento radicale bisogna avere il coraggio d'inventare l'avvenire. Noi dobbiamo osare inventare l'avvenire.

Every dance you know is an anti-grammar of another dance you do not know.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

We have to imagine and create, we have to fantasize, or there's nothing. Passion, desire, romance-those things don't exist unless we make them happen

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Thomas Watson

There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.

Follow the path of the unsafe

If we are lucky, they were never retarded enough to create computer viruses and will have no such things as firewalls and security like we have. If they have never experienced a full blown computer failure we'll introduce them to the concept

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.

Agreement and acceptance rarely stimulate experiments and progress.

dissidence and controversy are what bring science forward. Agreement and acceptance rarely stimulate experiments and progress.

Progress can today be defined as man`s ability to complicate simplicity.