Quotes About Innovation

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

Fashion is about having a fantasy.

It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.

When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you are in a position to build even better fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.

Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.

Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy, are my personal North Star.

It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

William Tell's son, Telly, who said as his father was pointing the bow and arrow at the apple on his head, There's gotta be an easier way to kill worms. Never got a dinner!

In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.

To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Doubt is the father of invention.

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India.