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Quotes About Innovation

Burn Today And Produce a Fire That Lights Up Tomorrow
~ David Edwards
Asset-backed securities involve a high degree of financial engineering. As a general rule of thumb, the more complexity that exists in a Wall Street creation, the faster and farther investors should run.
~ David F. Swensen
Readers crave something different, but not completely different.
~ David Farland
Este es el reto del ser humano: tener el valor de crear nuevos caminos y dejar las rutas conocidas, para mejorar y crecer.
~ Unknown
The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.
~ David Foster Wallace
We're going to reinvent not just government but history. Torch the past.
~ David Foster Wallace
this was a couple years before the sudden advance of someone in the luggage industry realizing that suitcases could be fitted with little wheels and telescoping handles so they could be pulled, which was just the sort of abrupt ingenious advance that makes entrepreneurial capitalism such an exciting system—it gives people incentive to make things more efficient).
~ David Foster Wallace
Let the call go forth, to pretty much any nation we might feel like calling, that the past has been torched by a new and millennial generation of Americans
~ David Foster Wallace
Derivatives're just trig with some imagination.
~ David Foster Wallace
Children and adolescents play a nearly incomprehensible nuclear strategy game with tennis equipment against the real or holographic(?) backdrop of sabotaged ATHSCME 1900 atmospheric displacement towers exploding and toppling during the New New England Chemical Emergency of Y.W. CELLULOID (UNRELEASED)
~ David Foster Wallace
Good-Looking Men in Small Clever Rooms That Utilize Every Centimeter of Available Space With Mind-Boggling Efficiency.
~ David Foster Wallace
Mathematical thinking is abstract, but it's also thoroughly private-sector and results-oriented.
~ David Foster Wallace
with a big color Xerox of M. Hamilton as Oz's West Witch on the door and custom fiber-wiring for a tri-modem TP console.
~ David Foster Wallace
The work that interests me is done with a pencil and a sheet of paper. Rarely even a calculator. At the cutting edge of electrical engineering, almost everything interesting is resolved via the manipulation of variables.
~ David Foster Wallace
It is important to avoid trying to create something that is average in all dimensions.
~ Unknown
I certainly didn't set out to create something famous there. I just set out to find some answers to questions that were nagging me. As in life, so in science: One thing leads to another, and before you know it, you find yourself someplace you never imagined going.
~ William M. Bass
The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
~ William M. Thackeray
Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
A judge's disposition should be about evenly balanced between sail and anchor. He cannot be anchored to the past mechanically, but he ought not be moved by every puff of novel doctrine.
~ William Rehnquist
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
~ William Saroyan
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
~ William Saroyan
O, brave new world that has such people in't!
~ William Shakespeare
Commit the oldest sins, the newest kind of ways
~ William Shakespeare
está dispuesto a hacer lo incómodo para ganar? ¿a extender sus alcances? ¿a hacer cosas diferentes y de forma diferente?
~ Willie Jolley