Quotes About Innovation

Ian McDonald

So I said, like, whazz new, I mean, like new new, not old new, yuh know, like last-week new

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She had never really known why the Ministry of Pain called its aerial slouch-craft "pantycars." Maybe in certain lights, from certain angles, they did look like jet-propelled underwear.

imagine the chimneys billowing smoke. Concentrate on those chimneys, can you see them? STUDENT: I can see them.

The dildo is long and elegant, a classic old school moon-rocket, complete with four stabilising fins at the bottom. Each fin controls a different haptic field. A silver pussy-rocket printed to the dimensions of her vagina and vulva. Not a penis. Never a penis. Ariel Corta has never allowed a penis inside her.

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 in the local Extra and the alco station; online banking; self-driving taxis; an automated triage system in the hospital. One by one, the bots came and replaced us.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

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It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

In mathematics, it's unwise to abandon an interesting idea just because it's wrong.

Maxwell's equations didn't just change the world. They opened up a new one.

Something that doesn't actually exist can still be useful.

technologies (reflecting new and more complex behaviors) do not tend to be associated with the appearance of new kinds of hominid. It was old kinds of hominid that started to do new things, even though those new things always seem to indicate a step up in cognitive complexity.

some current controversies are caused, or at least stoked, by a reluctance to abandon received ideas that may well have outlived their usefulness.

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

In the summertime I used to have a Kool-Aid stand set up in front of the house. A pitcher of Kool-Aid cost maybe a dollar and I'd sell glasses for a quarter apiece. I'd be able to make a profit of eight or nine bucks on a hot day. That was a nice little

An organization managed by a Bureaucrat may achieve its goals in spite of its manager because people learn to bypass him. However, the harder the Arsonist tries to manage, the further behind his organization gets. While the Arsonist is busy making everyone else busy, the organization is going nowhere. The Arsonist changes direction too often, and his subordinates do not actually cooperate. The Arsonist fails because an organization cannot constantly change direction.

One of the deans of the Graduate School of Management at UCLA had a sign on his door that read something like: "Warning: I might incorporate you to implement your own ideas." The sign itself, I was told, made several creative faculty members turn away with their suggestions while still at the door.

Chaos is another name for opportunity

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.