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Quotes About Innovation

So much technology, so little talent.
~ Vernor Vinge
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
~ Vernor Vinge
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
~ Vernor Vinge
Half-assed programming was a time-filler that, like knitting, must date to the beginning of the human experience.
~ Vernor Vinge
We're endangered by our own success.
~ Vernor Vinge
Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.
~ Vernor Vinge
Hexapodia as the key insight
~ Vernor Vinge
The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
~ Unknown
The message for business people contemplating their place in cyberspace is simple and direct: get linked or get lost.
~ Unknown
Necessity is the mother of invention. Danger is the father of preparation.
~ Unknown
He who does not move with the times is a dead man
~ Vicki Baum
In part due to the 270 bridges they built from local materials, lightweight prefabricated sections were available to construct the largest known Bailey bridge, which was built across the Chindwin at Kalewa in December 1944.
~ Unknown
meaning, creativity, flexibility, and a sort of rapid prototyping not just of jobs but of entire careers.
~ Vicki Robin
What's needed isn't change; it is transformation. Change seeks different solutions to intractable problems. Transformation asks different questions so that we can see the problems in a new light.
~ Vicki Robin
Fifty-one hybrids and ten MINI coopers. We're the most eco-friendly assault force in history.
~ Unknown
Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
~ Victor Hugo
Would you realize what Revolution is, call it Progress; and would you realize what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
~ Victor Hugo
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
~ Victor Hugo
You have created a new thrill.
~ Victor Hugo
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
~ Victor Hugo
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
~ Victor Hugo
There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
~ Victor Hugo
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
~ Victor Hugo
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
~ Victor Hugo