Quotes About Innovation

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

What kind of soldier carries music instead of guns?

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.

Great artists need great clients.

Be the best, not necessarily the original.

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Producing the prefect concrete has become a kind of philosopher's stone of the late 20th century.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. Discuss. Simon Warde Bognor Regis, West Sussex

In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.

Play isn't doing what we want, but doing what we can with the materials we find along the way.

Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk-flavored chewing gum.

Art has done many things in human history, but in the last century especially, it has primarily tried to bother and provoke us. To force us to see things differently. Art changes. Its very purpose, we might say, is to change, and to change us along with it.

fun isn't the experience of pleasure, but the outcome of tinkering with a small part of the world in a surprising way. Think

We were the only band that played with D.R.I. and C.O.C., and then Celtic Frost and Venom. We were doing shit that nobody else was doing, and we didn't care. I never took myself that seriously.

Vida moderna

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.

Hitler's achievement as a speaker was, therefore, to become the main popularizer of ideas that were in no way his invention, and that served other interests as well as his own.

Railways, like Daleks, have difficulties in getting up hills.

We always thought the robot apocalypse would be fleets of killer drones and war mecha the size of apartment blocks and terminators with red eyes. Not a row of mechanised checkouts