Quotes About Innovation

Play is our brain's favorite way of learning

Seres tan encariñados con su libertad como los seres humanos saben cómo volver a plantear casi cualquier tema. Si hay una cosa en la que realmente nos mostramos magistrales, es en empujar los límites, inventar estrategias, encontrar caminos para rodear las verdades más impías, tomar a la vida por las solapas y sacudirla sin piedad. Es cierto que la vida tiende a devolver los golpes, pero eso nunca ha bastado para deternos.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

The history of education is a seemingly endless parade of "new ideas" that are actually old ideas renamed.

When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.

I hardly suppose Wagner lost sleep worrying whether he'd hurt someone's feelings. But then he was a genius.

So much science has at its root the ability to see afresh what has been seen and thought to be understood for centuries.

It's one thing to have the vision for a new business, Schumpeter writes, but entirely something else to figure out how to do it. Here we have the second element of entrepreneurship, which involves organizing the business.

The first communications revolution gave us the railroads, the car and the airplane; the second one has given us the computer, the internet and the iPhone. Of course, these transformations bring a whole new range of products in their wake. Do you watch Hulu? Read on a Kindle? Find your way with GPS? Shop on Amazon? Listen to Spotify? Get to the airport with Lyft or Uber? Book with Airbnb? Use Instagram? If so, you are a beneficiary of twenty-first-century technological capitalism.

America is founded on the understanding that wealth can be created through innovation and enterprise. Through the system of technological capitalism, we can go from ten marbles to twenty marbles without taking anyone's marbles.

Vanderbilt, Hill, the Wright brothers—these are the American pioneers. They

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

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Oh, I have just had an idea - after tea I shall attack myself with sandpaper.

And I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring - I wrote my very best poem while sitting on the hen-house.

It has been said that once the mind has been expanded by an idea or concept, it can never return to its original way of thinking.

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

Technology is lust removed from nature.

Technology is crucial to civilization why? Because it helps us make our fate. We don't need God or miracles or the flight of the bumble bee. But it is also crouched and undecidable. It can go either way.

Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.

You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out - Murray (WN 285).

How children adapt to available surfaces, using curbstones, stoops and manhole covers. How they take the pockmarked world and turn a delicate inversion, making something brainy and rule-bound and smooth, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to repeat the process.

He was thinking about automated teller machines. The term was aged and burdened by its own historical memory. It worked at cross-purposes, unable to escape the inferences of fuddled human personnel and jerky moving parts. The term was part of the process that the device was meant to replace. It was anti-futuristic, so cumbrous and mechanical that even the acronym seemed dated.