Quotes About Innovation

This being 1962, no one thought it odd to have a mime program on radio.

Expelled from the art institute for, among other reasons, drawing nudes as a single straight line, à la Cocteau, he was a young man of 21 well versed in "acts of a rebellion against the squares.

freedom of expression is great for art, but lousy for engineering.

This means that not only can fast reactors – deployed at scale – "solve" the nuclear waste "problem", but that they can also run entire countries for centuries on uranium which has already been mined and for which there is little other use.

There is no doubt that new designs available today are dramatically safer than those of the past, and that the potential for severe accidents in future vastly reduced.

In terms of our energy mix, therefore, and despite tablet computers, synthetic biology and Twitter, we are really only mid-way through the Industrial Revolution.

No, that watch doubles as a high-power flame-thrower and a bidet.

I always wondered why nobody did it before me. I mean, all those comic book movies and television shows, you'd think at least one eccentric loner would have stitched himself a costume.

Believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.

Leaders don't try to make people unhappy. However, leaders just know, progress is always preceded by change." "And some people don't like change

First, believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do—that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written—it is written by leaders.

Many people in the world see events as they are; leaders are different in that they see things that could be. And the future they see is always a better version of the present. We believe we can make a difference; we think we can make the world, or at least our part of it, better. Leaders are generally more optimistic than nonleaders.

Before parents accept the wisdeom of a school board to cut school librarians, they should ask: Will my child graduate with a 21st-century resume, or a 19th-century transcript? . . . As the information landscape becomes ever more complex, why does a school district want to abandon its professional guides to it?

This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.

We realized that what too often comes from a conventional user-centered innovation process, even in partnership with some of the greatest companies on earth, is unicorns: ideas that are beautiful to think about and highly interesting, but that will never appear in the marketplace or your backyard, because they're conceived in blinkered isolation from the myriad of things that actually determine what makes it to market and what doesn't.

A few Sharps carbines were designed to hold a coffee mill in the butt stock of the gun, so that the soldier could always carry his grinder with him.

In 1938, after eight years of experimentation, Nestlé launched Nescafé

If your imagination is superior to the rules, go beyond the rules.

I like stepping into the future. Therefore, I look for doorknobs.

Creative imagination is a mystery. If you let it flow, it will happen, & you won't know how the idea came to you. It will just materialize.

A writer's refuge is imagination. Therein lies the ability to create a new world and bring order to chaos.

When I read, I visit other worlds. When I write, I create other worlds.

A writer's two greatest tools are imagination and perseverance.

Don't think. Imagine. Imagination is the firebed of a novel