Quotes About Innovation

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

The real question is not where do ideas come from but where do they go.

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

What something has evolved for and what something actually does are two separate things. Once we come to possess a capacity, we can use it for unintended purposes

Perhaps the world, incubating over Asiatic wisdom and Western science, will one day hatch out a civilization that will shame antiquity, deride modernity and amaze posterity.

John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed [in a painting], will set off a revolution.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. Paul Cezanne

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

2.Enhancing the customer's competitive standing.

the INTP is more likely to be drawn to programming (to be able to use his or her auxiliary function, Intuition, to learn about new programs and creative ways to use the system).

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

Microbe hunting is a story of amazing stupidities, fine intuitions, insane paradoxes.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

[Upon first seeing a daguerreotype:] From today painting is dead.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

It has been a long transition from interacting with computers using a soldering iron to interacting using a mouse. It has been neither smooth nor planned.

As We May Think

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.