Quotes About Innovation

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed. The Economist, December 4, 2003

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed. The Economist, December 4, 2003

The street finds its own uses for things.

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare. They are paid in proportion to the supply and demand of them.

Many beginning bot builders head down to the local junkyard and purchase a couple of starter motors, assuming that any low-cost, 12-volt DC motor capable of spinning up an automobile engine must be really powerful and torquey. True enough, but starter motors, being series wound, must be modified to make them reverse. While starter motors have been used successfully to drive robots, it takes

The genius of American business lies in risk-taking, creativity, invention, and ambition.

There's no great future in being the leading supplier to a dying industry.

The value of most high-tech products is determined by the cost of alternative solutions to the customer.

Marketing's job is to design intangibles into the product and then to use them to make products unique.

Time is the deadly enemy of the technology business. Today's great idea is tomorrow's obsolete concept. The longer it takes a company to get its product to the market, the greater the likelihood a competitor will be there first. Big plans with extended schedules are a risk in any business,

Try to remember that artists in these catastrophic times, along with the serious scientists, are the only salvation for us, if there is to be any.

Seldom was blue for blue's sake present till Pollock hurled pigment at his canvas like pies.