Quotes About Innovation

If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Now that we have run out of money we have to think.

You create your own universe as you go along.

Those who never change their minds, never change anything.

Time after time, history ran over the luddites and romanticists, those who sought to restore the old and delay the new. And every time, history did it with faster, more reliable and more advanced vehicles.

change is the best kind of rest.

Za pochodu si vytvárame svoj vlastný vesmír.

Toilet paper too thin, newspapers too fat!

Cada serie de circunstancias crea otras nuevas.

It is a joke in Britain to say that the War Office is always preparing for the last war. But this is probably true of other departments and of other countries, and it was certainly true of the French Army.

Past experience carries with its advantages the drawback that things never happen the same way again.

Gunpowder, which we have seen used in the puny bombards which, according to some authorities, Edward had fired at Crécy and against Calais, was soon decisively to establish itself as a practical factor in war and in human affairs based on war. If cannon had not been invented the English mastery of the long-bow might have carried them even farther in their Continental domination.

Nearly all the battles which are regarded as masterpieces of the military art, from which have been derived the foundation of states and the fame of commanders, have been battles of manœuvre in which very often the enemy has found himself defeated by some novel expedient or device, some queer, swift, unexpected thrust or stratagem. In many such battles the losses of the victors have been small.

Mankind has never been in this position before. Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into its hands for the first time the tools by which it can unfailingly accomplish its own extermination.

Many things were adopted in the war which we were told were technically impossible, but patience, perseverance, and above all the spur of necessity under war conditions, made men's brains act with greater vigour, and science responded to the demands….

kill not only men, but ideas.

The most damnable thing in the world is a servile copyist!

Nothing was wasted that could contribute to the process of waste. The last dying kick was brought into military utility.

Las ciencias mecánicas ofrecen en tierra, en el aire, en las costas, posibilidades ilimitadas de novedad y de sorpresa, salidas de la forja o del laboratorio.

Me parece que solo será a partir de la próxima generación cuando caminar se convierta en algo vanguardista.

Na gruncie sztuki to odmienne (powiedziaÅ'bym: niechÄ™tne, lekcewa??ce) podejÅ›cie do formy mo?e zapewni? odnowienie i rozszerzenie Å›rodków artystycznego wyrazu. ProklamujÄ…c wszÄ™dzie gdzie siÄ™ da, zasadÄ™, ?e czÅ'owiek jest wy?szy od swoich wytworów, dostarczam swobody, jakiej bardzo potrzebuje dzisiaj nasza pokurczona dusza.

An der technischen Entwicklung der Dampfmaschine im 18. Jahrhundert läßt sich der Prozess der Emanzipation der modernen Produktionsweise von den Schranken der organischen Natur verfolgen.