Quotes About Innovation

The sky is no longer the limit.

Robinson could do with three or four facts what prehistorians achieved with stray dinosaur bones:

By the time Rockefeller left office in 1973, SUNY was the world's largest university system, with a quarter million students attending classes on sixty-four campuses. For

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

It is only when we forget the ideas behind building something wonderful that we can actually do the building that makes things wonderful.

reuse is properly a process issue, and individual organizations need to decide whether they believe in its long-term benefits.

The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing.

Normandy operations, typified by Quesada's armored column cover and Broadhurst's contact cars, thus fulfilled a concept born a quarter-century earlier, amid the mud of Flanders: the notion of the airplane as a partner of the tank, as a "counter antitank" weapon. In that war, then-Colonel J.F.C. Fuller, Great Britain's greatest armor advocate, had recognized that cooperation between air and armor forces was "of incalculable importance.

It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking, than to think your way into a new way of acting.

I'm a creative man so my fears are greater than most.

L'électricité est réellement le sang de la civilisation.

No idea is too strange or ridiculous. An unworkable idea may inspire in someone else an idea that will work.

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

Faraday's principle of induction,

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

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

I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.

The time is well past for the church, particularly the Western church, to rethink and reimagine what it means to be the church in the twenty-first century.

The price to sequence a base [of the human genome] has fallen 100 million times. That's the equivalent of you filling up your car with gas in 1998, waiting until 2011, and now you can drive to Jupiter and back twice.

The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had discovered the atomic nucleus and begun transmuting elements, the physics laboratory at Oxford had not been wired for electricity. Intellectual neglect technical education to this day. [Describing C.P. Snow's observations on the neglect of technical education.]

This just goes to show that if you want to succeed in this world you don't have to be much cleverer than other people, you just have to be one day earlier.