Quotes About Innovation

the expensive-looking thing in her hand resembled a cross between a miniature oar and an orthopedic brace. She was off for a fast game of something, but Case had no idea what.

one can't really enjoy what science fiction does without being able to recognize the point at which the imaginary lifts off from the known.

Indeed, today, reliance on broadcasting is the very definition of a technologically backward society.

a trio of young office techs who wore idealized holographic vaginas on their wrists, wet pink glittering under the harsh lighting.

William Gibson

Más que la tierra o el dinero, más que la cuna. Información. Eso es lo que importa.

After she'd called for the car, they waited outside while it drove itself over.

I dislike calling them stubs," Lowbeer said. "They're short because we've only just initiated them, by reaching into the past and making that first contact. We should call them branches, as they literally are.

Everything changed.

Far more creativity, today, goes into the marketing of products than into the products themselves, athletic shoes or feature films.

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Las ideas más brillantes son siempre las más sencillas.

The greatest ideas are the simplest. Now there was something to be done they worked with passion.

Le assemblee. Andiamo pazzi per le assemblee, vero? Una al giorno. Anche due volte al giorno. Stiamo lì a parlare. Scommetto che se suonassi la conchiglia in quest'istante, eccome se verrebbero, e di corsa. E allora, sapete, ce ne staremmo lì tutti compiti, e qualcuno proporrebbe di costruire un jet, o un sottomarino, o una televisione. Ad assemblea finita, lavorerebbero per cinque minuti e poi se ne andrebbero a zonzo, o a caccia.»

I got vision; the rest of the world is wearing bifocals.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

His remarkable succession of inventions made him appear to possess almost magical powers, so that he was called "The Wizard of Menlo Park." The notion alternately amused and angered him. "Wizard?" he would say. "Pshaw. It's plain hard work that does it." Or, his much quoted statement: "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." Laziness, mental laziness in particular, tried his patience.

The first public gas streetlight in the United States is lit in Baltimore, Maryland.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

When a thing is new, people say: 'It is not true.' Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: 'It is not important.' Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: 'Anyway, it is not new.

An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric.

Such were the men whom Hitler gathered around him in the early years for his drive to become dictator of a nation which had given the world a Luther, a Kant, a Goethe and a Schiller, a Bach, a Beethoven and a Brahms.

Marvin found that German clergymen had taken to wearing clerical collars made of paper. They cost eight cents, can be worn inside out the second day, and are then thrown away….

The crazy game of pilling stones was also in you and your friends' marvelous innovation. And how really hard you would hit the phony big guy who you hated like anything.