Quotes About Innovation

For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete.

Machinery only cared about what a man knew and what he could do with his hands

Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?

It assumes that better means faster. By those standards, a typewriter is nothing but a very bad computer.

Who is the ingenious inventor of the type-writing machine that opens such a wide field of hope for the cautious caligraphist while it takes from the feeble spellist his only safeguard, illegibility?

If you can't have fun with Science, what good is it? -Einstein

She could tell them about a simple machine needing no fuel and little maintenance, one that steadily sequesters carbon, enriches the soil, cools the ground, scrubs the air, and scales easily to any size. A tech that copies itself and even drops food for free. A device so beautiful it's the stuff of poems. If forests were patentable, she'd get an ovation.

The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.

Still, history is the long process of outsourcing human ability in order to leverage more of it.

Reckless archaism. Arpeggiating under the influence. Presto in an andante zone.

Out of her mouth came a stream of discrete, miraculous gadgets—tiny but mobile creatures so intricately small that generations marveled and would go on marveling at how the inventor ever got the motors into them.

Isn't the point of music to move listeners? Mattison smiled. No. The point of music is to wake listeners up. To break all our ready-made habits. And tradition? Real composers make their own.

A good answer must be reinvented many times, from scratch.

a simple machine needing no fuel and little maintenance, one that steadily sequesters carbon, enriches the soil, cools the ground, scrubs the air, and scales easily to any size. A tech that copies itself and even drops food for free. A device so beautiful it's the stuff of poems.

Do not invent anything; simply discover it.

Her breakthrough comes as breakthroughs often do: by long and prepared accident.

You live between three trees. One is behind you. The Lote - the tree of life for your Persian ancestors. The tree at the boundary of the seventh heaven, that none may pass. Ah, but engineers have no use for the past, do they?

There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one

The game's best AIs are smarter than last year's interplanetary probes. Play becomes the engine of human growth. But

How life managed to add imagination to all the other tricks in its chemistry set is a mystery

Whole new rooms open up in Adam's brain, ready to be furnished.

A simple, five-command loop expands into a beautiful segmented structure of fifty lines. Little portions of program detach into reusable parts. Neelay's father hooks up a cassette tape player, for easy reloading of their hours of work in mere minutes. But the volume button must be set just right, or everything explodes with a read error.

Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe in the future he shall be.

What do I do now, for the next forty years? What work can't the efficiency of unified mankind chop into pure fertilizer?