Quotes About Innovation

Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

Chance created the situation; genius made use of it.

Olenin always took his own path and had an unconscious objection to the beaten tracks.

We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins.

The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that impedes progress.

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.

My method of writing is to take the most basic kind of line and improvise on it. After all, I am the child of the culture which created Jazz.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

Those who have taken the side streets have changed the way people live on this planet. But those who stay with The Road find that it is clearly marked all the way with the same sign: "How does the universe work?

Like so many creative men of his school he was hounded by an incessant restlessness.

The questions that we must ask ourselves, and that our historians and our children will ask of us, are these: How will what we create compare with what we inherited? Will we add to our tradition or will we subtract from it? Will we enrich it or will we deplete it?

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

what is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. if Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.