Quotes About Innovation

He was very suspicious of inventions, for they always meant that some rule would have to be broken.

What's new in the realm of Glock barrels? From Glock, not a thing.

We also usually got the best results, probably because not only do we think outside the box, we trample it, change its shape, hide it from all its loved ones, and then hold it for ransom.

I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future.

Well I haven't fucked much with the past, But I've fucked plenty with the future. - Babelogue

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

To be an artist is to enter into competition with god.

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it." - reference to Andy Warhol

I was too curious about the future to look back.

Everything I came up with seemed irreverent or irrelevant.

Ich war zu neugierig auf die Zukunft, um zurückzuschauen.

It was exciting just to stand in front of the hallowed ground of Birdland that had been blessed by John Coltrane, or the Five Spot on St. Mark's Place where Billie Holiday used to sing, where Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman opened the field of jazz like human can openers.

The old world and the emerging one served up in the brick and mortar of the artisan and the architects.

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

But the urge to express myself was my strongest desire, and my siblings were my first eager coconspirators in the harvesting of my imagination

There's always new stuff, that's for sure.

Within five years of Röntgen's invention, X-rays were considered essential for clinical care. In 1900, at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, 1.3 percent of all patients were X-rayed; by 1925, it was 25 percent. In 2009, a poll conducted by the Science Museum in London named the discovery of X-rays as more important than the discoveries of penicillin, computers, motorized cars, the telegraph, and the DNA double helix.

Nothing is more dangerous than science without poetry or technical progress without emotional content," wrote Houston Stewart Chamberlain, a German philosopher.

In part because of antibiotics, we live 30 years longer than we did a hundred years ago.

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.

For it is no railways, roads, and power stations that give rise to industrial capitalism: it is the emergence of industrial capitalism that leads to the building of railways, to the construction of roads, and to the establishment of power stations.

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.