Quotes About Innovation

Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy.

A labor-saving device doesn't just provide a substitute for some isolated component of a job or other activity. It alters the character of the entire task, including the roles, attitudes, and skills of the people taking part.

Although traditional weapons killed far more people in the Great War, poison gas gave a new nightmare edge to the fighting.

These are unusual times. They call for ordinary people to do unusual things, just to get by.

What do you not have to do in order to produce a new sound?

Sanat s?n?r?larda cereyan eden bir tür deneydir.

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

WE'RE ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF REALITY ITSELF. RIGHT WHERE IT TURNS INTO A DREAM

Write the unpublishable...and then publish it.

Psy Ops is all about unusual thinking, man. We want ideas blown up right to where they're gonna pop. We're on the cutting edge of reality itself. Right where it turns into a dream.

Break the daily and weekly routine you have set. Get out of that comfortable route.

This verse uses the Hebrew word milacha to refer to work instead of the more common word avoda. Milacha is not truly translatable; it is best understood as creative work—work that produces something.

Why within limits? You apparently consider levitation impossible, but wouldn't you have considered wireless impossible if you had been living fifty years ago and somebody had endeavoured to convince you of it?

What I wonder about the dreams is—all the new inventions people think up—how many of those things are made by people like me—like us? How many "inventions" are really memories, of the things we once knew? And—how many of us are there?

Don't be afraid of unimagined possibilities; imagine the possibilities and then imagine what you'll do about them.

I've always felt like I'm Asia: I'm the first me and I'm the first Asia that's going to walk into the room, and I'm here to change the game. That's part of who I am.

Asian football is the future of football.

Some people might say, 'Can we afford it?' I think that's asking the wrong question... We should instead be asking, 'Can we really afford not to try?'

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

Any products associated with a Apple are going to win. The people who make the Apple products are going to win.

We see ourselves as being people who want to take India to the world; we see ourselves as being aggressive, assuming risk.

Oh, I assure you, science is anything but boring.