Quotes About Innovation

One does not have to wonder what was going through the minds of the founders of these towns e.g LEFT HAND,WV-V J SMITH Author, ROAD TRIP TOWNS WITH WACKY NAMES BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK

Small things start us in new ways of thinking

If a writer knows everything that is going to happen, then his book is dead before he begins it.

All good science emerges from an imaginative conception of what might be true.

Homogeneity breeds weakness: theoretical blind spots, stale paradigms, an echo-chamber mentality, and cults of personality.

At one time, the state of culture in Czechoslovakia was described, rather poignantly, as a 'Biafra of the spirit'. . . I simply do not believe that we have all lain down and died. I see far more than graves and tombstones around me. I see evidence of this in . . . expensive books on astronomy printed in a hundred thousand copies (they would hardly find that many readers in the USA) . . .

he would have been the first to scoff at the notion of labeling himself anything other than an explorer. His words to me were, 'If you aren't willing to take the risks, then you can't make the discoveries.

Do you know what the imagination is, Susan?" The child nodded sagely. "That's when you see things that aren't really there." "Well, not exactly," said Kris with a smile. "No -- to me the imagination is a place all by itself. A very wonderful country. You've heard of the British Nation and the French Nation?" Susan nodded again. "Well, this is the Imagination. And once you get there you can do almost anything you want.

One feels relieved these days when a play is not like television.

History sometimes reproduces, at a distance of many years, the same combinations of circumstances that generate great achievements. But nothing ever repeats itself in exactly the same way.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

viral aesthetics and guerrilla marketing

You know you have a problem when you do the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.

Inspiration always arrives unannounced.

Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

Everything solid was first an idea.

Money is only a human invention.

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.

Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.

To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.