Quotes About Innovation

No two people knit alike, look alike, think alike; why should their projects be alike? Your sweater should be like your own favorite original recipes - like nobody else's on earth. And a good thing too.

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a "mummified" form.

They also mounted stubby masts to which a sail could be secured;

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

My factories may make an end of war sooner than your congresses. The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

The art of progress is to reserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost.