Quotes About Innovation

Some composers are just interested in music as form. I am much more interested in the formational aspect, in music as a process.

The technophile and the technophobe ask the same question. What's next?

When technologies are in-between human users and natural prompters, we may qualify them as first-order (Figure 13). Listing first-order technologies is simple. The ones mentioned earlier all qualify. More can easily be added, such as the plough, the wheel, or the umbrella. The axe is probably the first and oldest kind of first-order technology. Nowadays, a wood-splitting axe is still a first-order technology between you, the user, and the wood, the prompter. A saddle is between you and a horse.

In short, human intelligent design (pun intended) should play a major role in shaping the future of our interactions with each other, with forthcoming technological artefacts, and with the infosphere we share among us and with them. After all, it is a sign of intelligence to make stupidity work for you.

The design of good interfaces takes time and ingenuity.

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We cannot create what we can't imagine.

what can I change so I never have to do this again?

I definitely love that all these car brands are coming out with hybrid forms of every car that they have. It's very awesome because I think it does make a difference, and it doesn't hurt that you save a lot of money on gas.

I became obsessed with this idea of blurring the perimeter of the body, so you couldn't see where the skin ended and the near environment started.

I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

There's no place to put the furniture. I was born in a little village in Germany. I can dream and imagine this new world, but I can't live in it.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of gods.

Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines.

Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit.

It was the ideas of the classical economists that removed the checks imposed by age-old laws, customs, and prejudices upon technological improvement and freed the genius of reformers and innovators from the straitjackets) of the guilds, government tutelage, and social pressure of various kinds. It was they that reduced the prestige of conquerors and expropriators and demonstrated the social benefits derived from business activity.

There is no room at all for independent enterprise under any variety of State Socialism. Prices are to be regulated authoritatively; authority is to fix what is to be produced, and how, and in what quantities. There is to be no speculation, no 'excessive' profit, no loss. There is to be no innovation unless it be decreed by authority. The official is to direct and supervise everything.

With all production, employment, and distribution of output completely under the monopoly control of the State, the fate and fortune of every individual would be at the mercy of the political authority. In addition, these earlier opponents of socialism had cogently argued that with the end of private property and freedom of enterprise, individuals would lose much of the self-interested motivation for industry, innovation, and work effort that exists in a market economy.

One must rather ask how much could be produced if competition among producers were abolished.

The first thing a genius needs is to breathe free air.

Production is "anarchistic.

Coloro che combattono per la libera concorrenza non difendono gli interessi di quelli che sono ricchi. Vogliono che sia lasciata mano libera a uomini sconosciuti, che saranno gli imprenditori di domani e la cui ingegnosità renderà più piacevole la vita delle generazioni future.