Quotes About Innovation

Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

I want to get a job naming kitchen appliances. That seems easy; refrigerator, toaster, blender. You just say what the thing does and add "er".

Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze 'em?

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler.

I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a kaleidoscope. "We're surrounded."

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.

I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.

I want to make a vending machine that sells vending machines. It'd have to be real big.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

I would like to go fishing and catch a fish stick. That would be convenient. I could easily get a job at Mrs. Paul's.

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

If we can send a person to the moon, we can send someone with AIDS to the moon, and then someday we can send everybody with AIDS to the moon.

My Irish mate told me, if you file down the edges of a 50 pence piece, you can use it as a 10p.

I put hardwood floors on top of wall-to-wall carpet.

If you wanna find out 101 things to do with plums, heh, read your in-flight magazine.

Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicine as we used to know it.

Whenever I'm stuck in traffic, I can't help but wonder, 'Where did the creator of The Jetsons go, and why hasn't he done something about this?'

I met Steve Jobs once. In '06? He had a sense of humor.

We need a politician who hates politics.

Opposable thumbs are overrated.

Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine.