Quotes About Innovation

There are so many powerful people in this world who refuse to see any vision they didn't think of.

Yet even the most hackneyed, shopworn science fiction or fantasy tale will feel startling and fresh to a naive reader who doesn't know the milieu is just like the one used in a thousand other stories.

Take one idea that you've been struggling with, combine it with a completely unrelated idea that you've also been working on, and see what comes out of the effort to reconcile both ideas into one coherent story.

Two glaserlike devices connected to each other like a bola that can be placed on opposite sides of an asteroid. Like earmuffs. They operate under the same principle, but their gravity fields counter each other, so the asteroid is still ripped to shreds by tidal forces, but the gravity field doesn't grow to unstable levels. It's far more contained. The rock is still ground to powder, but nobody dies.

Speculative fiction includes all stories that take place in a setting contrary to known reality.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I much prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

All great ideas are dangerous.

Anybody can have common sense, povided that they have no imagination

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

The Greek word clepsydra, given to ancient water clocks, comes from the amalgamation of the Greek words for water and to steal.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you're looking for something else altogether. Sometimes they even happen by accident. Don't they know you can't get a scientific breakthrough just because you want one?

Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do, she murmured back. So they've invented a new acronym.

Eureka!s like the one Archimedes had when he stepped in a bathtub and suddenly realized the answer to the problem of testing metals' density are few and far between, and mostly it's just trying and failing and trying something else, feeding in data and eliminating variables and staring at the results, trying to figure out where you went wrong.

Are you making something up in your head, miss?" —FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT, A Little Princess Zener

You can kill the King without a sword, and you can light the fire without a match. What needs to burn is your imagination.