Quotes About Innovation

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

The feeble clavichord did not carry far; the harpsichord was only a little stronger; but Cristofori in Italy was working at these defects; he built a machine he called clavicembalo piano e forte — a keyboard instrument to play "soft and loud." Contrary to all experience, we now call it simply "a soft.

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

La technique se développe de façon indépendante, en dehors de tout contrôle humain.

Man is caught like a fly in a bottle. His attempts at culture, freedom, and creative endeavor have become mere entries in technique's filing cabinet.

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

I simply cooked the way I felt, based on the ingredients at my disposal. That became my definition of American cuisine.

Y el público siempre pide lo nuevo, la novedad. Pero ¡si la novedad es tan vieja como el mundo!

You know, what 'New Girl' is doing is they're bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren't your typical guest-star-type people.

Always I'm trying to make something human but as if it hasn't been made by a human.

With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot.

The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

She probably had the only 3-D CAD program in the world that used bat wing-beats as a unit of measurement. 

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again." "Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works." —Alan J. Perlis

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

Twenty-six thousand feet up the cols of Everest, a long way beyond the staying power of plants, pale spiders have been found, who subsist on nothing more discernible than air. Apparently they also reproduce their kind. What else they do with their time and, for that matter, why, no one has yet made out.

on D. W. Griffith] There is not a man working in movies, or a man who cares for them, who does not owe Griffith more than he owes anybody else.

When it crosses my mind to do something, I don't ask why, I ask why not. And usually there's no reason not to, so I just go ahead." He paused, then added,

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.