Quotes About Innovation

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.

History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history.

LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

The history of economic progress consists of charging a fee for what once was free.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.

I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.