Quotes About Innovation

Of course, with any new technology, the question in the back of everyone's mind is 'Can I have sex with it or use it to kill people?' -Flintstones Vol. 2: Bedrock Bedlam

Robert Anthony wrote one of my favorite quotes regarding anyone wanting to make themselves indispensable: "If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.

Leadership is about movement and growth.

When people feel that their contributions are unappreciated, they will stop trying. And when that happens, innovation dies.

Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures.

Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our time Is becoming the architecture of the next time.

rocket mass heater, a homemade furnace so efficient that you can hold your open palm over the chimney. There's no heat or smoke or pollution because everything gets burned. Whereas conventional furnaces gobble valuable resources like wood or gas, only to create waste in the form of smoke and escaped carbon, these devices transform waste into a valuable resource: heat.

The machine enslaves, the hand sets free.

Maybe that's all it takes for the future to exist, Pino thought. You must imagine it first. You must dream it first.

the Galleria, the world's first covered shopping mall—

Zines are not a new idea. They have been around under different names (ChapBooks, Pamphlets, Flyers). People with independent ideas have been getting their word out since there were printing presses.

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.

All the modern inconveniences.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

A man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.

What wine goes with Captain Crunch?

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.