Quotes About Innovation

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

Research is creating new knowledge.

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

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

"Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.

I make movies I want to see.

In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.

Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

technological change is not additive; it is ecological. A new technology does not merely add something; it changes everything".

One characteristic of those who live in a Technopoly is that they are largely unaware of both the origins and the effects of their technologies.

Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

We might say that a technology is to a medium as the brain is to the mind.

What's wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies

There was a time when educators became famous for providing reasons for learning; now they become famous for inventing a method.

It is quite probable that the most original problem solving activity students engage in school is related to the invention of systems for beating the system.

What is clear is that, to date, computer technology has served to strengthen Technopoly's hold, to make people believe that technological innovation is synonymous with human progress.

If the press was, as David Riesman called it, "the gunpowder of the mind," the computer, in its capacity to smooth over unsatisfactory institutions and ideas, is the talcum powder of the mind.

How does a culture change when new technologies are introduced to it? And is it always desirable for a culture to accommodate itself to the demands of new technologies?

Public consciousness has not yet assimilated the point that technology is ideology.

America was founded by intellectuals, from which it has taken us two centuries and a communications revolution to recover.

The principal strength of the telegraph was its capacity to move information, not collect it, explain it or analyze it.

in 1892, Procter and Gamble invited the public to submit rhymes to advertise Ivory Soap.