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Quotes About Innovation

Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him.
~ Isaac Yeffet
I just don't want to bother looking at recipes. To me, that's not cooking—being tied to a piece of paper." He
~ Unknown
I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy that is, with engineering roofs, etc.
~ Isambard K. Brunel
No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o'clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.
~ Ishmael Reed
I want a film which really hurts your eyes.
~ Isidore Isou
No text without inspiration
~ Unknown
If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?
~ Ismail Kadare
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
~ Israel Zangwill
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
~ Issey Miyake
Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
~ Issey Miyake
Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature…. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function.
~ Italo Calvino
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
~ Italo Calvino
How can you keep up with her, this woman who is always reading another book besides the one before her eyes, a book that does not yet exist, but which, since she wants it, cannot fail to exist?
~ Italo Calvino
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
~ Italo Calvino
1 )Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them. 2)A classic is a work which constantly generates a pulviscular cloud of critical discourse around it, but which always shakes the particles off.
~ Italo Calvino
We'll invent new ways of being together.
~ Italo Calvino
La fantasia è una specie di macchina elettronica che tiene conto di tutte le combinazioni possibili e sceglie quelle che rispondono ad un fine, o che semplicemente sono le più interessanti, piacevoli, divertenti.
~ Italo Calvino
One summer day, Eugenio Scalfari and I created an entire philosophical system: the philosophy of the élan vital . The next day we discovered that it had already been invented by Bergson.
~ Italo Calvino
Nell'universo infinito della letteratura s'aprono sempre altre vie da esplorare, nuovissime o antichissime, stili e forme che possono cambiare la nostra immagine del mondo...
~ Italo Calvino
You hope to always to encounter true newness, which, having been new once, will continue to be so.
~ Italo Calvino
It's not for reading. It's for making. I make things with books. I make objects. Yes, artworks: statues, pictures, whatever you want to call them. I even had a show. I fix the books with mastic, and they stay as they were. Shut, or open, or else I give them forms, I carve them, I make holes in them. A book is a good material to work with; you can make all sorts of things with it.
~ Italo Calvino
your purchases and gadgets suggest elaborate and fanciful recipes, at least in your intentions
~ Italo Calvino
Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have function." — Italo Calvino
~ Italo Calvino
Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò-Lived in trees-Always loved earth--Went into sky.
~ Italo Calvino