Quotes About Innovation

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.

As to the future, the only certainty is that the Internet will encounter new technical and social challenges. If the Internet is to continue as an innovative means of collaboration, discovery, and social interaction, it will need to draw on its legacy of adaptability and participatory design.

Blew it up his nose. That woman should have cards printed: 'Dr. Evan Wilson, Imaginative Medicine a Specialty.

All right, Spock, I'll bite: why would she take up saber, quarterstaff and eating with chopsticks?" "To extend her reach.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

Janet Tashjian

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

I have a very vivid imagination.

Just because we've always done things a certain way doesn't mean it's the right way.

What would be the purpose of having an imagination and not using it?

Independent thinkers are usually deemed nuts until everyone realizes they were onto something all along

After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to our survival.

After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.

What is clear is that genius, whether it is represented by a Thomas Edison or an Albert Einstein or an Alberto Ramirez, leaves the world a better place.

An idea sparked in the 1960s, a thought experiment, an amusing haiku, is now a thing of metal and glass.

It's tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.

the 21st Century is really a terrible time to be a control freak.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.

My two main conclusions are that technology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic acts, and that it finds most of its uses after it has been invented, rather than being invented to meet a foreseen need.