Quotes About Innovation

You think it, I ink it.

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The greatest task before civilisation at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men; and if civilisation fails at the task, then without doubt it and its makers will go down to a common destruction.

Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

I have long thought, and still think, that radio is magic. Television is OK, but radio is magic. If television had been invented first and then radio had come along, people would think, "What a wonderful thing this radio is! It's like television except you don't have to look at it!"

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

The human mechanism is marvelous. But why not — it is the result of three-and-a-half billion years of tinkering.

There is a great renaissance going on. The flood of brains and imagination from the country to the cities is being stemmed — and a gradually increasing trickle is running in the opposite direction.

Keith Wynn, @ravens_rhapsody

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

Be a vintage typewriter in a world full of laptops.

I feel so grateful to the man who invented the "Traveller's" typewriter...

Stories live in typewriters. Try a different typewriter — you may get a different story.

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Caulfield: In the past, here's how you'd forecast the weather: pick up your phone; call someone west of you; have them open a window. In the present, you open a window on your phone. Frazz: In the future, no one goes outdoors.

This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

The printing press is the mother of errors.

Writing — a race to the typewriter keys before that brilliant idea flees

EDITOR... a bit of sandpaper applied to all forms of originality by the publisher-proprietor...

Why can we land people on the Moon, machines on Mars and transfer trillions internationally, but can't figure out how to run efficient, accurate and fair elections?

Continuous improvement is not about the things you do well — that's work. Continuous improvement is about removing the things that get in the way of your work. The headaches, the things that slow you down, that's what continuous improvement is all about.

For he who rejects change is the architect of decay.

Different isn't always better, but better is always different.