Quotes About Innovation

Government Philosophy: If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is.

Did you hear about the new reversible jackets? I can't wait to see how they turn out.

Improvement makes strait roads: but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius.

Engineering...to define rudely but not inaptly, is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidised commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

If you see a bandwagon, its too late.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else -- but persistent.

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

There is nothing wrong with change...if it is in the right direction.

All things must change To something new, to something strange.

Being normal is boring!

Roman engineering The Romans accomplished amazing feats of engineering as they built roads, bridges, and aqueducts (bridges for water conduits) across their empire. This 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct at Segovia, in central Spain, has 128 arches. No mortar was used to cement the large blocks of granite together. Good roads were one of the reasons for the success of the Roman Empire. They allowed troops and supplies to be moved swiftly, before the enemy could either attack or escape.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

Dac? nu exist? ferestre, ele trebuie inventate.

If you experiment, you have to fail. By definition, experimenting means going to territory where you've never been, where failure is very possible. How can you know you're going to succeed? Having the courage to face the unknown is so important. I

I always question artists who are successful in whatever they do—I think what that means is that they're repeating themselves and not taking enough risks.

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

Ideas can come anytime, anywhere, while I am making this gazpacho or going to the bathroom. I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

When I think about my life, the early works, you know, always you learn as a young artist to have a style you can follow, a certain line. But I didn't do that. I had this enormous urge to make different works. And some of them, I didn't see any kind of connection. I didn't know where I'm going. But now, looking 45 years back, everything had perfect sense. It's like a straight line.