Quotes About Innovation

Creating never happens in those big gestures that the final product suggests in the end.

He had essentially created the new genre of string trio in 1788 with the Divertimento in E-flat major, K. 563.

Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

Necessity is the motherfucker of invention.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Change is not, then, a matter of "magical" thinking or waving a "wand"—it is about pushing ideas, building movements, and challenging the status quo.

When building something with as many moving parts as a brand-new restaurant, each small step along the way feels like a victory.

Pick a genre Pick a word count Decide on the number of characters in your story Select a theme Give yourself a deadline for completing the story

Worrying about originality is like worrying about the best place to hang your wall phone.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

When one cannot think of how to do things better one simply makes things bigger. The construction of the great pyramids in Egypt marked the end of the Old Kingdom. Bigger and bigger cathedrals and temples were built when the faithful became secure and comfortable. Dinosaurs, too, were an evolutionary dead end: the huge reptiles were replaced by small, energy-efficient mammals.

There is an obvious difference between someone who works within the technical limitations of his time which are beyond his control and someone who accepts without thinking limitations which are entirely within his own power to set aside.

The subject of food is like Chopsticks: almost anyone can improvise on it.

that omelettes couldn't be made without breaking eggs. Sacrifice

That's what people do in Holland. They build dykes and ditches. They don't drown. They're brilliant engineers.' 'So I've heard,' says Faro thoughtfully. 'They're very obstinate, those people in Holland.

There are no rules. That is how art is born.

memory movement of the 1990s.

crossing the lines, which is probably as good a definition of how social change happens as one can find.2

My mind is the pendant, creativity is the chain

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Over the course of twenty years, however, science has evolved in breathtaking fashion.

Life has changed a lot, you know. You didn't used to get all this food inside food inside food when I was a girl. The other day I was eating a mushroom and found it had been stuffed with prawns. I've got so many misgivings over this crazy, Boy. It's flying in the face of nature. A mushroom is a woodland fungus and a prawn comes from the sea. People have got no business stuffing one inside the other.

Life has changed a lot, you know. You didn't used to get all this food inside food inside food when I was a girl. The other day I was eating a mushroom and found it had been stuffed with prawns. I've got so many misgivings over this craze, Boy. It's flying in the face of nature. A mushroom is a woodland fungus and a prawn comes from the sea. People have got no business stuffing one inside the other.