Quotes About Innovation

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I blame Steve Jobs. And that Zuckerberg fellow. All those clever little psychopaths who couldn't get laid in high school but make up for their sexual inadequacy by inventing technology that destroys humanity. They're the Oppenheimers of the twenty-first century.

If you ask me,' she adds, pointing towards the book in her husband's lap, the stern visage of its subject, Alexander Graham Bell, staring back at her, 'that fucker has a lot to answer for.

Richard Bandler suggested that one of the major blocks to creativity was the feeling of knowing you are right.

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.

A system that makes no errors is not intelligent.

Sometimes science fiction does become scientific discovery.

Creativity is a fragile flower, but perhaps it can be fertilized with systematic doses of serendipity.

Science itself is learning how to better exploit negative results.

delight in good ideas.

There are two kinds of fool. One says, 'This is old, and therefore good.' And one says, 'This is new, and therefore better.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then…?

You know, that's what's wrong with us on the public level. We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that's better. Our society is hurtling in free fall toward heaven knows where

First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race.

What third alternative?" Said Chang with the dream-like air of a man who finds himself doing the impossible. "They gave it to us," said the Machine.

In the same week he would harass an Under-Secretary about horses from the Army, write voluminously to the press about a gun he had invented for potting aeroplanes, give a fancy-dress ball which he forgot to attend, and get in the semi-final of the racquets championship.

Better to be impossible than measured in centimeters

The old dos not accept the new. Not, at least, the new that never was old.

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

The Stone Age didn't end because people ran out of stones. It ended because people kept learning and improving

Pressed to identify useful financial innovations created during the past quarter-century, Paul A. Volcker, former Federal Reserve Chairman and recent chairman of President Obama's Economic Recovery Board, could single out only one: "The ATM.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking,perceiving, questioning are encouraged.

If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.