Quotes About Innovation

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

He was giving birth to groups of words.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

What any experimental art is trying to get you to do is move beyond your preconceptions and your expectations regarding what should be happening, what's going to happen, what kinds of effects it should have, and enter a liminal state in which those things can be redefined in the way that the particular artist or piece of art is proposing.

Internet of Things is a vision where every object in the world has the potential to connect to the Internet and provide their data so as to derive actionable insights on its own or through other connected objects

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding.

Any complex technology is the product of many antecedents. Destroy the infrastructure of a society supporting such technology and, though the knowledge itself might not be lost, the society would lose the basis on which the tech was built. Members of a human civilization bombed back into the Stone Age are hardly going to be able to build computers from flint and wood.

The more miraculous a technology is, the more prone it is to catastrophic breakdown.

What we actually needed was a technology that's been around for a couple of centuries. It's called birth control.

Stone Age men broke flint and found it cut things better than their own teeth did. We've created methods of transportation that work better than legs, and often do things we could only dream of, like flying. A hydraulic grip clamps on things better than a human hand. They're all tools and nobody objects to them, so why should anyone object to creating minds that are better at thinking than our own, and rulers that are better at their job than those humans who would aspire to rule?

He found rabbit-fur-lined underpants

Within a week of Hahn's discovery, American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer sketched a crude bomb on his blackboard.

Neal Shusterman

Show some fucking adaptability!

Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.

Art means to dare — and to have been right.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.