Quotes About Innovation

everything that is not forbidden by laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge.

there can be only one type of person: universal explainers and constructors.

there is only one way of making progress: conjecture and criticism

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it – in a decade, a century, or a millennium – we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise?

What was needed for the sustained, rapid growth of knowledge was a tradition of criticism. Before the Enlightenment, that was a very rare sort of tradition: usually the whole point of a tradition was to keep things the same.

After all, computers play chess mindlessly – by exhaustively searching the consequences of all possible moves – but humans achieve a similar-looking functionality in a completely different way, by creative and enjoyable thought.

Changing our genes in order to improve our lives and to facilitate further improvements is no different in this regard from augmenting our skin with clothes or our eyes with telescopes.

They are 'universal constructors'.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

I drive an electric car.

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

The great expanding centre of 'inner Britain', London, did not build ships but it built aeroplanes, it did not mine coal but it made electrical equipment, it did not grow food but it did process it – into beer, refined sugar, Horlicks and Mars bars. It made tyres, Hoovers, films.

British battleships were driven by between 30 and 100 megawatts of power.

The history of invention is not the history of a necessary future to which we must adapt or die, but rather of failed futures, and of futures firmly fixed in the past.

I don't care how famous a guitarist is, he ain't learned everything. There's always somewhere to go, something to mash up, but he ain't found it yet. You never learn everything on that guitar neck.

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

Playing safe is often the riskiest thing you can do in a career. If you stand still, the odds are overwhelming that the world will leave you behind.

Large-scale problems do not require large-scale solutions; they require small-scale solutions within a large-scale framework.

Cuando aparece en el mundo un verdadero genio, se lo puede reconocer por esta señal: todos los necios se conjuran contra él».

Respect the elders. Embrace the new. Encourage the impractical and improbable, without bias.

Those Greeks and Romans," he protested, "they are so overrated. They only said everything first. I've said just as good things myself. But they got in before me.

America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.

They had none of the modern things that we have today, and yet they turned their world upside down,