Quotes About Innovation

I don't do terribly well when someone has an exact idea of how one of my goals should be accomplished. That doesn't allow me any latitude to make adjustments to suit my own style. I do well when I can draw my own map.

If this were your first annual review with our company, what would I be telling you right now? A: You'd be thanking me for a job well done and would be explaining how you look forward to continuing to see good work from me. Furthermore, I would anticipate your explaining how you really appreciated my putting in extra time on some key projects and how my creative thinking helped come up with some innovative solutions to existing problems.

Zum Wesen der Wissenschaften wie der Künste gehört, dass sie ihrem Bedürfnis voraus sind; zum Wesen des Markets gehört, dass er auf die gegenwärtigen Bedürfnisse antwortet. Wissenschaften und Künste brauchen die Freiheit, das zu suchen und zu erschaffen, was niemand erwartet, niemand verlangt, das, wofür es keinen Markt gibt.

One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.

The final new elements in music making (as opposed to listening, considered in the next section) were introduced by Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826). Weber had a diseased hip and walked with a limp but he was a virtuoso of the guitar and an excellent singer, until he damaged his voice by accidentally drinking a glass of nitric acid.

What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots?

But deceleration is for pansies. We're headed for the stars.

Tools exist for only one reason: to force the universe into unnatural shapes.

It was machines that scanned the heavens, machines that probed the space between atoms, machines that asked the questions and designed to experiments to answer them. All that was left for mere meat, apparently, was navel-gazing.

The reason that stuff goes bad is because it's crappy old tech. Internal augs are less failure-prone than your own brain." "So they'll work flawlessly when some spambot hacks in and leaves me with an irresistible urge to buy a year's supply of bubble bath for cats.

Technology is a stunted thing in benign environments, it never thrived in any culture gripped by belief in natural harmony. Why

Maybe the Singularity happened years ago. We just don't want to admit we were left behind.

Nobody used an industrial vortex engine to run kitchen appliances.

when a lemur makes a human, it doesn't matter how many lemur chains and lemur rules and lemur constraints she imposes. She's simply, computationally incapable of seeing all the angles that her smarter creation can take in at a glance.

You'll just have to imagine

Semmelweis reflex. They

If you've got the senses and reflexes to hide between someone's saccades, why stop there? Why not do something that really works?

Technology implies belligerence.

In a global, digital economy, if IT is not a strategic asset, it's a strategic liability.

not being able to read music is absolutely liberating for me. It gives me a wider musical vocabulary. There

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

A secret lab is considered by many to be the physical manifestation of a spark's mind. Thus they tend to be rather individualistic. Some are spotlessly clean; some are filled with dangerous trash. Some are ruthlessly efficient; some are filled with suicidal deathtraps. Needless to say, sparks are usually vocally dismissive of the labs of others, while surreptitiously making notes about things they'd wished they'd thought of themselves.

Marshmallow guns (or other similarly useless weapons) are actually fairly common accessories in your typical spark laboratory. No one knows why. They just sort of accumulate.

Agatha blinked and then reexamined the stick. "That's true. All right then, I'll improve it. I'll bet there are all kinds of things I can do to make it stronger." Dimo raised an eyebrow. "As ve iz fightink our vay through a var zone?" "It will be an excellent way to get parts." Dimo grinned. "Vhen hyu poots it dot vay, hit almost makes sense!