Quotes About Innovation

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

We can't solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them

a person who never make a mistake, never tried anything new.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary.

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

A storm broke loose in my mind.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

The wirless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Tone Synthesizer' Amazes Scientists." The Times explained that the machine, "built about five years ago but kept secret during the war, has an almost infinite number of tones . . . so that not only every kind of tone ever produced (including the human voice) can be reproduced accurately by measurement but also millions of tones that no present musical instrument is able to make."16

It is in our best interest to. . . embark on a revolutionary change that will lead us away from oil dependency rather than drag our feet and suffer the costs of becoming growingly dependent on a diminishing resource.' Truer words were never written.

Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry.