Quotes About Innovation

But with Taylor in command, he told you what you needed to do here—he had to run everything. You can't do a good job if you do not have a chance to use your imagination or your creativity.

I simply feel that now we've so utterly perfected the walkie-talkie to the point where it has become the iPhone, maybe we could turn the great minds that brought us the Nintendo Wii, to, say, getting fresh water to the one billion people on our planet who don't have it.

You see this dub thing, I was the one who invented it in 1965. People think it came later. But sometimes when I got a song to mix I used to just rub out the lyrics and remake it, and add in all kind of echoes and reverb and all that. Cause to tell you the truth, that is how I was seeing myself–like somebody whose voice got rubbed out.

Whoever cannot seek the unforseen, sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.

The creative talent belongs to the outsider, and to be an outsider is the artist's fate.

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

If it's good, they'll stop making it.

It's not enough to be a vanilla business school. It's not enough to be terrific teachers who really know their subject matter well.

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.