Quotes About Innovation

It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing

You'll never be fully engaged in where you are or where you're going by settling for normal. Here's a fact: No one who was normal ever made history. Drop that fantasy like a hot rock!

The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

Make history or be a part of it.

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.