Quotes About Innovation

It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, 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.

Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

Art should aim at the production of individuality in the component details of its compositions.

Faraday was asked: "What is the use of this discovery?" He answered: "What is the use of a child - it grows to be a man.

Life is an offensive directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.

Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source.

the major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur

In some measure or other, progress is always a transcendence of what is obvious.

It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur :—like unto an arrow in the hand of a child.

The "silly" question is the first intimation of some totally new development

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club?... Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.

Invention has ever imagination and poetry at its heart.

Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We've got to come up with a better answer.

Dishevelled genius; because genius doesn't need to be hevelled, whatever hevelled is.

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.

A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting-Marcel Duchamp

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press 3.

Ultimately, brands are built by people who passionately believe in their brands. Indeed, many of the world's best brands can be linked to a single person: Howard Schultz created Starbucks, Steve Jobs built Apple, Pleasant Roland formed American Girl, Richard Branson developed Virgin, and Phil Knight was the driving force behind Nike. Brand builders understand and believe in the power of brands.     Tim

You cannot approach this from logic. You have to approach this from the most wild depths of your imagination.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

Netuno introduz tendências, mas Urano produz mudanças abruptas. [...] O importante é lembrar que [em Urano] é imperativo ver as coisas a partor de um nível diferente ou sofrer as consequências.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

Storytelling can be more than a blog post, essay, or book. It can be an emoji, a meme, a selfie, or a tweet. It can become a movement for social change.