Quotes About Innovation

The smaller the input required for the production of an article becomes, the more of the scarce factors of production are left for the production of other articles. But the better an entrepreneur succeeds in this regard, the more is he vilified and the more is he soaked by taxation. Increasing costs per unit of output, that is, waste, is praised as a virtue.

credit set business free from dependence on the simultaneous occurrence of demand and supply.

If people never did silly things, then nothing intelligent would ever get done.

A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

I pick up a pen and start to unscrew the whole thing, pull out the skinny little tube of blue ink. It would be so cool to have one of these built inside you, like a squid; you could point your finger and leave your mark on anything you wanted.

A villain let your creativity out of its cage.

Do you even know what a salad is?" "Sure," Jordan said, smiling. "It's that stuff they invented a sneeze-guard for.

I should have known from watching Henry work at the office: programmers moved slowly and deliberately, and then waited to see the reaction. And if they did not succeed the first time, they would try over and over again, until they broke through that fifth dimension and got it right.

To buy something you punched in the vendor's credit number and the amount of purchase; the sum was automatically shuffled from your account to his. The machine was the size of a slender wallet and coded to your thumbprint.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

New Chapter about New Things

Priusquam autem ad creationem, hoc est ad finem omnis disputationis, veniamus: tentanda omnia existimo . However, before we come to [special] creation, which puts an end to all discussion: I think we should try everything else.

Ships and sails proper for the heavely air should be fashioned. Johannes Kepler to Galileo 1609

Why have I not genius to start some new thought? Some thing that will surprise the world?

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—

Few industries have had their death foretold more frequently than the book publishing industry, and yet somehow, miraculously, it seems to have survived them all – at least till now.

The novel is a kind of elephant. But I like to make that elephant dance on a quarter.

he felt that a treasure-house of new fiction lay vaguely under his hand, if he could only find the key to it.

Whitney had carefully kept the cotton gin under wraps while he applied for a patent, but he made a tactical error when he allowed women to have a look at it

If your library is not unsafe, it probably isn't doing its job.

You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.

The word "innovation" comes from the Latin words in and novare, meaning "to make something new, to change".

The more you read, the more you write, the more the ideas will appear. They'll fall like confetti around your head and your only difficulty will be deciding which ones to catch and which to let fall to the floor.