Quotes About Innovation

the assumption that a new medium is merely an extension or amplification of an older one; that an automobile, for example, is only a fast horse, or an electric light a powerful candle.

new technologies compete with old ones—for time, for attention, for money, for prestige, but mostly for dominance of their world-view.

America is engaged in the world's most ambitious experiment to accommodate itself to the technological distractions made possible by the electric plug.

People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think

Don't listen to those who say you're taking too big a chance. [If he had], Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.

Piracy is the new radio.

Lesson learned? Essential lesson learned! You can erase what you draw, even what you've spent a long time drawing and sweating over it. You can throw away what you paint and, as I learned to do later, cut it up and incorporate it into a new painting. A lesson to take straight to heart, and not only in art making.

The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

I remember Mac retorting that hundreds of years ago there was a Hindi word for a craft that flew in the air, long before the airplane was invented, but that did not mean that airplanes existed in ancient India.

Man was the animal who created. Like the God in whose image he was supposedly made, he created his own heaven and his own hell.

To the unenlightened man this will seem to be all fantasy, yet all progress comes from those who do not take the accepted view, nor accept the world as it is.

it is imagination which makes one a leader while the lack of it makes one a follower.

Imagination is more important than knowledge." ALBERT EINSTEIN, On Science

Well hath he been called one of the architects of civilization.

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined. In 2008 alone is really inventors applied to register 9591 new patents. The equivalent figure for Iran was 50 and for all majority Muslim countries in the world with 5657.

The great thinkers of the eighteenth century were also pioneering tourists

A poem should improve on the blank page.

In poetry everything is permitted.

A good accountant or financial adviser is a kind of artist. You can turn people's money into the most amazing creative possibilities, things they would never have dreamed of.

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.