Quotes About Innovation

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.

No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.

The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.

We are not to tell nature what she's gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

By nature I am curious about life, and this extends to my business.

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.

Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.