Quotes About Innovation

The great paradox of automation is that the desire to eliminate human labor always generates new tasks for humans.

Jane Austen never repeats herself.

Mary Lynn Manns

Pioneers do not as a rule settle for the comfortable corners of life, and Maria Sklodowska was no exception.

When the struggling young painter Rodolphe Salis opened Le Chat Noir in 1881, he had no idea that he was about to make history.

Do not copy me," [Antoine] Bourdelle repeatedly told his students. "Sing your own song.

1883, Printemps achieved the distinction of being the first department store in Paris to be lit electrically. Zola,

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

Almost everything we know about good software architecture has to do with making software easy to change

There are few endeavors in which it is more important to keep options open than in software development. In Chapter 3, "Decide as Late as Possible

Set-based development means that you communicate constraints, not solutions.

Resistance indicates a perceived threat to a largely unconscious belief system, one that has no doubt successfully guided the organization in the past.

One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.

Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be.

Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government redlining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let's squander some on Mars. Let's go out and play.

A participant from Zambia, who had listened intently throughout the conference, finally raised her hand at a senior level roundtable. "I have been hearing this expression—'we need to think outside the box'—for the past 3 days," she said, reiterating the cliche. "It seems a little strange to me," the woman continued with bemusement. "In my community we don't thinking boxes.

Real things are made things. Are you a real person, or did your parents make you up? Is that a real mountain or did the forces of the universe make it up? Is the virtual reality of the Internet real or did imaginative people like Steve Jobs make it up?

Breton, heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud, believed that art should be freed from the brake placed on creativity by the conscious mind.

Without imagination we should be lost; for only with its help can we interpret our experience, turn it into experience of an outer world, and thus make use of it in understanding what and where we are, and what we need to do.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Art is a process, not a product.

Biologically and intellectually, reading allows the species to go "beyond the information given" to create endless thoughts most beautiful and wonderful.

To do something familiar and succeed is no surprise, but to try something new and fail--why, that is the start of an adventure.