Quotes About Innovation

Imitation is criticism.

I know that this world is a world of Imagination and Vision.

Happenstance intersecting with received wisdom produces something entirely new and significant.

he considered further, the very ability to fantasise was a fundamental feature

The most creative leaders are smart yet naive, playful but disciplined, humble, and proud.

Vuja dé is the flip side of that—looking at a familiar situation (an industry you've worked in for decades, products you've worked on for years) as if you've never seen it before, and, with that fresh line of sight, developing a distinctive point of view on the future.

A new music is a new mind.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

If there is progress then there is a novel.

perhaps it is all art and Barnum our one genius (in the arts) on the moral plane

The same things exist, but in a different condition when energized by the imagination.

Dissonance (if you are interested) leads to discovery

One minute gives invention to destroy, What, to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.

Esto, esto es lo que trataba de decir: que cuando algo es nuevo, difícil y brillante, es mucho mejor que si solo es seguro, pues lo seguro, las cosas seguras son precisamente las que la gente ha estado haciendo tanto tiempo, que sus bordes están ya gastados y no hay nada ya en ellas que permita decir a un hombre: «Esto no se había hecho antes y no puede ser hecho otra vez».

We must redefine the American dream so that it does not rest on the assumption that we can throw old places away and create new ones in the middle of nowhere.

Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people, and protect themselves from talented people . . .

To present a whole world that doesn't exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we're polymaths. That's just the act of all good writing.

That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.

You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who always reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's going to have some specific purpose. It's for doing something that somebody already understands. But if it's new technology, it'll open areas nobody's ever thought of before. You read the manual, man, and you won't play around with it, not the same way. And you get all funny when somebody else uses it to do something you never thought of.

His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce.