Quotes About Innovation

Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.

It seems so to me, said his wife, as if she were producing a new thought.

After all there was good in the old ways...there was good in the new order too.

he mused, thinking of his son as the spokesman of the new generation which had swept away all the old landmarks, and with them the sign-posts and the danger-signal.

Courage is about the most useful thing in an artist's outfit.

What is originality in art? Perhaps it is easier to define what it is not and this may be done by saying that it is never a willful rejection of what has been accepted as the necessary laws of various forms of art. Thus in reasoning originality relies not in discarding the necessary laws of thought, but in using them to express new intellectual conceptions. In poetry originality consists not in discarding the necessary laws of rhythm but in finding new rhythms within the limits of those laws.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper, and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Untried forms of government may, to unstable minds, recommend themselves even by their novelty.

A]rt can never give the rules that make an art.

I wished to warn the people against the greatest of all evils,—a blind and furious spirit of innovation, under the name of reform.

Edison averaged one patent for every ten to twelve days of his adult life.

The poet must steal fire from the heavens.

he was like a man on the brink of his own creation.

Creativity is magic, don't examine it too closely.

One might well think of [Going Mobile by Glen Engel-Cox] as a Carol Emshwiller or Connie Willis story...with balls.

Real life, however, is very different from school sums. There is usually more than one answer. Some answers are much better than others: they cost less, are more reliable or are more easy to implement. There is no reason at all for supposing that the first answer has to be the best one.

Thinking is the ultimate human resource.

Empezar por el final y elaborar la solución hacia atrás es una conocida técnica para resolver problemas.

In an atomic pile an explosion is prevented by inserting rods of cadmium, which mop up the particles that are shooting around. In this way the energy in the pile is controlled. If there are too many rods, the chain reaction stops and the pile can no longer produce any energy. People who are unable to appreciate new ideas are like the rods: some of them are necessary to prevent a destructive explosion, but too many make it impossible for the pile to produce any energy.

Design is the basis for action.

Lateral thinking has very much to do with perception. In lateral thinking we seek to put forward different views. All are correct and all can coexist. The different views are not derived each from the other but are independently produced. In this sense lateral thinking has to do with exploration just as perception has to do with exploration.

A Locrian who proposed any new law stood forth in the assembly of the people with a cord round his neck, and if the law was rejected, the innovator was instantly strangled.

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

As someone once said, originality is not taking from somebody else. It's when nobody can take it from you and repeat it.