Quotes About Innovation

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. ALBERT EINSTEIN

Before dentists' chairs were invented, the patient's head was clenched between the surgeon's knees.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Any fool can find answers. People who ask new questions, they are the geniuses

The inventor of roller skates first demonstrated them by hurtling into a party while playing the violin and crashing into a huge mirror.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

But even after European medicine changed, medicine in the United States did not. In research and education especially, American medicine lagged far behind, and that made practice lag as well.

began using that door. In 1880 Pasteur—who observed, "Chance favors the prepared mind"—

Horizontal vision allows someone to assimilate and weave together seemingly unconnected bits of information. It allows an investigator to see what others do not see, and to make leaps of connectivity and creativity.

Monument and Ignacio, Colorado, went further than banning all public gatherings. They banned customers from stores; the stores remained open, but customers shouted orders through doors, then waited outside for packages.

striving to replace it to some extent by this image. This is what the painter does, and the poet, the speculative

But how does one know when to persist, when to continue to try to make an experiment work, when to make adjustments—and when finally to abandon a line of thought as mistaken or incapable of solution with present techniques?

Man might be defined as "modern" largely to the extent that he attempts to control, as opposed to adjust himself to, nature

the prevailing paradigm tends to freeze progress

The chief enemy of progress, ironically, became pure reason.

In 1880 Pasteur—who observed, "Chance favors the prepared mind"—

They had not done the wild things that had no basis in their understanding of the workings of the body. They had not given quinine or typhoid vaccine to influenza victims in the wild hope that because it worked against malaria or typhoid it might work against influenza.

Nevertheless, the DARPA Robotics Challenge did what it was designed to do: expose the limits of today's robotic systems.

At the top of the page is a photo of sunrise as seen from space, and in between are the words "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." Brand intended the photo as a way to describe living a life open to serendipity. As Jobs put it, "I have always wished that for myself.

Today Shakey's original DNA can be found in everything from the Kiva warehouse robot and Google's autonomous car to Apple's Siri intelligent assistant.

was not a coincidence that the two men who had the greatest impact on the shape of today's personal computer were among the earliest to fully comprehend the impact of the exponential scaling of microelectronic circuits.

Although driverless cars will displace millions of jobs, they will also save many lives. Today, decisions about implementing technologies are made largely on the basis of profitability and efficiency, but there is an obvious need for a new moral calculus. The devil, however, is in more than the details. As with nuclear weapons and nuclear power, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and robotics will have society-wide consequences, both intended and unintended, in the next decade.

religious experience, inspiring the same kinds of passion that Vannevar Bush's Memex article had given rise to for Engelbart twenty-three years earlier. Computing was just beginning to have an impact on society.

Both the Whole Earth Catalog and the Homebrew Computer Club, which gave rise to several dozen companies that forged the personal computer industry—including Apple—emerged from the fertile ground that Raymond created.