Quotes About Innovation

The best Plan B will emerge from the multitudes.

Thoughts, ideas, and suggestions.

Caltech is a wonderful place. Named the top university in the world by the Times of London in each of the last three years, it is small enough—just 300 professors, 1000 undergrads, and 1200 graduate students—that I know Caltech experts in all branches of science. It was

I cofounded the LIGO Project in 1983 (together with Rainer Weiss at MIT and Ronald Drever at Caltech). I formulated LIGO's scientific vision, and I spent two decades working hard to help make it a reality. And LIGO today is nearing maturity, with the first detection of gravitational waves expected in this decade.

But there was something magical about my idea. I had to admit, I felt better and happier when it was around.

It was all I could think about. Even as I slept, I dreamt of creating beautiful things.

Resistance to innovation is clearly demonstrated, not by the ignorant masses, but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and the monopoly of learning.

To put it in terms of information theory, the new technology overwrites the old one. The technology saved under a new file name survives as a new species.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

So am I going to get a zipper in my chest?

Cryptology used to be the realm of linguists. Now it's dominated by the geeks." She said this proudly, as if she was one among them. "We're going to rule the world, you know?" What Holly didn't understand was that when she said things like this, she didn't sound like a geek—she sounded like a Valkyrie.

When the only tool you own is a hammer . . ." "Every problem begins to resemble a nail.

Until someone invented a fang condom, she'd continue stealing from the blood bank.

If a demon and a vampire mated, their offspring would be unique but in harmony, like a Labrador retriever crossed with a poodle. Voila, labradoodle!

The brain could go just about anywhere with anything.

If everyone else is thinking right and left, you fucking well better be thinking up and down.

Their mastery of technology was their greatest strength. But their utter reliance on it was, ironically, their greatest weakness.

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.

There seemed to be no horses nor animals of any kind; the men carried things around in little green carts, which they pushed before them. Everyone seemed happy and contented and prosperous.

We live in an age of progress, announced Professor Wogglebug, pompously. It is easier to swallow knowledge than to acquire it laboriously from books. Is it not so, my friends? Some

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.

India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.

A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet.

In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.