Quotes About Innovation

I've never really had a studio. A studio makes you lazy and comfortable, and you repeat yourself.

I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny; mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.

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.

We are trapped in technology because we are so unbelievably impressed by technology ... Technology is not the problem, our approach to technology is the problem.

So often, as writers, we keep pressing ourselves against a wall. We know we're stuck. We know this direction isn't working. But stubbornness and pride keep us pushing in the same direction. In backing away from our original plan, we must have faith that the essence is there, but some radical departure must take place.--Writer's Digest

In the early days of space travel, one interesting problem emerged from experiments with weightlessness. Americans found that ... normal ink pen would not work without gravity feed. Scientists undertook extensive research, finally developed high-technology pen to work in conditions of no gravity. In Russia, scientist faced with the same problem found a different solution. Instead of pen, they used pencil.

Como decía Albert Einstein, «ningún problema importante puede ser resuelto desde el mismo nivel de pensamiento que lo generó».

Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules. People think they are. They look as if they are. They say, "Do this, not this. Add this, not that." But, really, recipes are just suggestions that got written down.

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

El único problema sería, tal vez, que la alfarería se haga a corto plazo por computadora o por internet. O por robots. Que Dios (que no existe) nos asista».

nuestra luna y su miel se llevaron a cabo con una praxis semejante a la de hoy ya que la humanidad ha innovado poco en este punto realmente cardinal

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries, Crown Business, September 12, 2011 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbably, Second Edition, by Nassim Nicolas Taleb, Random House, May 11, 2010 Footnotes 1 The Black Swan, Second Edition, by Nassim Nicolas Taleb, Random House, May 11, 2010

Galileo was hailed as a Columbus of the heavens. The Scottish librarian Thomas Segeth raved: "Columbus gave man lands to conquer by bloodshed, Galileo new worlds harmful to none. Which is better?

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

feel like there are all these unmade things inside my head, waiting for me to let them loose into the world. A whole galaxy of unmade things, so bright it hurts.

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.

Creativity Loves Constraints.

And yet there is space for human creativity to creep between those iron bars. We bend them, we slip through them from time to time.

New ideas are so important. The art of pleasing is to know what people want even before they want it.