Quotes About Innovation

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

an architect should not take a position of throw more hardware at it... that will fix all the problems.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

The technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet.

whatever you think, think the opposite

The perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

Change your tools, it may free your thinking.

To be original, seek your inspiration from unexpected sources.

Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know and more will come back to you.

All creative people need something to rebel against, it's what gives their lives excitement, and it's creative people who make the clients' lives exciting.

Successful solutions are often made by people rebelling against bad briefs.

Experience is the opposite of being creative.

Ideas are open knowledge. Don't claim ownership.

So: it's wrong to be right, because people who are right are rooted in the past, right-minded, dull and smug.

You had to invent something. It's not possible to leave it blank. The mind won't let you.

Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.

Fuck Edison and his goddamned lightbulb.

Op die manier is de elektrische stoel uitgevonden. Uitgedokterd door Edison die de gevaren van de wisselstroom wilde tonen en zijn idee vervolgens verkocht aan de Sing-sing-gevangenis waarop het tot op de dag van vandaag wordt gebruikt. Heerlijk, vind je niet? Als de wereld niet zo prachtig was, zouden we allemaal nog cynici worden.

There's progress for you. A bigger and better mousetrap every month. Pretty soon, we'll all be able to kill all the mice at the same time.

If everyone keeps asking you the same questions, maybe you have to come up with new answers just to stay awake.

That's American know-how for you. It keeps coming at you, and every minute there's new junk to push out the old junk.

Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative

And if you think about it, pretty much everything that made the twentieth century bearable was invented in a California garage: the Apple computer, the Boogie Board, and gangster rap.

I rationalized that there are only so many notes and therefore only so many combination of notes, so it stood to reason that there are so many songs.