Quotes About Innovation

First develop a strategy that utilizes everything around you. The best way to prepare for a challenge is to cultivate the ability to call on an infinite variety of responses.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

It is essential not to confuse modernization with development.

I think you create your own hipness.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's where my responsibility ends. But I just don't wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don't use the ideas that I find, they're going to quit showing up.

Just as in Hollywood, what matters most is not the movie you made twenty years ago, ten years ago, or even just a couple of years ago, it's the one you made most recently that counts. You need to be constantly refueling your brag campaign to reflect changes in your circumstances and audience.

Making something from nothing is the quintessential magic of women, whether turning fiber to thread or flour to bread or engaging in the ultimate creative act: conjuring new humans from nowhere at all.

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

She laughed and asked, "What if Shakespeare was just hitting keys?" "Shakespeare didn't have a typewriter," I said. "What if he was just making marks on paper? And that's how he came up with Macbeth?" "I doubt it. Maybe Measure for Measure. I could see that with Measure for Measure. Not Macbeth.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

El motor último del capitalismo no es, por tanto, la sed de ganancia ni ningún otro deseo humano, sino el desarrollo en cuanto entropía negativa. "El desarrollo no es un invento de los seres humanos. Los seres humanos son un invento del desarrollo" [Lyotard "Une fable postmoderne", en Moralités postmodernes pp. 86-87]

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

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Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

Amid sparkling creativity, spectacular innovation and unprecedented wealth, growing up in the West means for many a sense of alienation and a craving for intimacy, authenticity and hope.

If you can imagine it, you're halfway there

You see this circle? The size of this circle represents everything that I know about basketball. But the size of this ball represents everything about the game that has never been discovered.

Any damn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.