Quotes About Innovation

The new sysadmin won't power down a machine, replace a failing disk drive, reboot, and restore from backup; he'll write software to detect a misbehaving EC2 instance automatically, destroy the bad instance, spin up a new one, and configure it, all without interrupting service.

On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you made up.

Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to shake things up, but we're going to have to get some pants on this one.

Easy Never Produces Excellence

The best thing is that everything that you make in Scratch can be stored directly on your computer or you can upload it on the Scratch website if you want to get feedback from other users.

You imagination is more important than your knowledge.

In fact, NASA doesn't use the F-word; instead, they call failure "early attempts at success.

Not everybody has to be a striver. Canada does a very good job of trying to raise the standard of living of all its citizens. I think this is admirable and appropriate. However, those poor, tortured Canadian souls who are driven to innovate and make things, don't just have to endure the typical loneliness of genius, they also must overcome the inertia of a culture that continually asks strivers, 'Who do you think you are?

There's no law against writing a boring book…but there ought to be.

The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything.

Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.

You can get a lot of design testing of your missile program, and you can do a lot of - there's other ways other than physically to develop your weaponization program to get you very close to the real deal.

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Hay que pensar en grandes cosas mientras se hacen pequeñas cosas, para que todas las pequeñas cosas vayan en la dirección correcta. ALVIN TOFFLER

Un ejemplo de una visión a largo plazo útil y no demasiado restringida es la visión inicial de Toyota Motor Corporation de «Mejores automóviles para más personas».6 ¿Qué

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.

While meteorology as an applied science has made tremendous strides in the past fifty years, we have not yet discovered a cure for bureaucracy.

surfing, writing, composing, and programming deep into the night, like it's the early 1980s with the hue of poison-green CRT illuminating the room, Nike running shoes on the floor, hair metal poster on the door, and everything is infinite, made of fibre optics and floppy disks . . .

If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.