Quotes About Innovation

I think it would be a good stunt to get along without any art at all for a generation, and see what we miss.

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.

We have come a long way on that old molecule.

Arriving at cell theory has been considered even more important to biology than Darwin's theory of evolution

The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

I quite enjoy science fiction.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.

Every town, every book, is a way to say, look, there's a new way, a different way. Every book in a bookstore is a fresh beginning. Every book is the next iteration of a very old story. Every bookstore, therefore, is like a safe? deposit box for civilization.

Gary Ross is amazing. He's just - he always has a billion ideas of what he wants, but has a very clear perspective also he just makes it work. He really does. He's trying different things and making everything look amazing.

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Alice had yearned to be a little disruptive, but she couldn't work out how you got started.

If only she could have e-mailed or texted him, that would have solved everything, but mobile phones and the Internet were still in the future.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy -- at least until we have become as clever as they are.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly to so much good as the printing-press.

Im so far ahead, I got to save the last dance.

They know where carter at, straight off the launching pad. Marching on the moon muthafucka I been to mars and back. Cleaner than laundry mats.

Im a new song and youre just a remix.

If we didn't have fear, imagine the creativity in the world. Fear holds us back every step of the way.

Is the good scientist allowed artistic license?

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

The road to success is always under construction