Quotes About Innovation

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

In the age in which we live, the impossible is every day losing ground.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed...

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of do it yourself.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

Kid to his Dad as they watch TV: Dad, tell me again how when you were my age you had to walk all the way across the room to change a channel.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but 'That's funny...?

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

The only way to make your PC go faster is to throw it out a window.

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

Humans are the only animal who can have sex over the phone.