Quotes About Innovation

People keep giving me rings. But I think a small death ray might be more practical.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

But his very best questions always popped out of his mind, unprepared, never having been written down in advance because they were the angle he picked up on the fly, as he heard an answer to a lesser question. Those creative questions were the art. It is what, in my mind, made his querying great.

Like everyone else, scientists have intuitions. Indeed, hunches and flashes of insight—the sense that something is true even if you can't prove it—have been behind countless breakthroughs. The interplay between System 1 and System 2 can be subtle and creative.

Not until the twentieth century did the idea of randomized trial experiments, careful measurement, and statistical power take hold. "Is the application of the numerical method to the subject-matter of medicine a trivial and time-wasting ingenuity as some hold, or is it an important stage in the development of our art, as others proclaim it," the Lancet asked in 1921. The

The rate of the development of science is not the rate at which you make observations alone but, much more important, the rate at which you create new things to test.11

The idea of randomized controlled trials was painfully slow to catch on and it was only after World War II that the first serious trials were attempted. They

glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) liberalized

Plans are merely a platform for change. Israeli Defense Forces.

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

En el mundo de la pintura, todos esperaban innovaciones e ideas nuevas, pero, en el mundo de la música, con un entorno mucho más conservador, no había espacio para las nuevas ideas. El mundo de la música seguía obsesionado por una «música moderna» que tenía más de cincuenta años. Aquella reflexión supuso para mí un momento de liberación.

If you don't know what to do, there's actually a chance of doing something new.

If you don't know what to do, there's actually a chance of doing something new. As long as you know what you're doing, nothing much of interest is going to happen.

As a Juilliard student I would write music by day and by night hear John Coltrane at the Village Vanguard, Miles Davis and Art Blakey at the Café Bohemia, or Thelonious Monk trading sets with the young Ornette Coleman, who was just up from Louisiana playing his white plastic saxophone at the Five Spot at St. Marks Place and the Bowery. Years later, I got to know Ornette.

the point of writing music and experiencing music isn't to make people comfortable necessarily

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

By and by we shall have balloons and pass over to Europe between sun and sun. Oh, for the good old days of heavy post-coaches and speed at the rate of six miles an hour!

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas," John Maynard Keynes famously observed, "but in escaping from the old ones.

The nerds have taken over the newsrooms.