Quotes About Innovation

America is Europe's greatest invention.

The first lift shaft was built four years before the first lift. In 1852 Peter Cooper was constructing the Cooper Union building in New York with an elevator shaft, in the sure and certain knowledge that if he built it, the lift would come. That isn't an act of impatience, it's an act of faith, and it is, archetypally, the act of an American.

Derringer, who invented the gun that killed Lincoln, made as much money in lawsuits as he did selling guns.

a particularly American ability to come up with consistently dreadful names for new things. Just as there is an inspiring national talent to invent stuff and to think forward, so there is an equal and opposite imaginative black hole when it comes to naming the stuff: the conflation and truncation of words, adding extraneous vowels and hyphens to the portmanteau.

One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries

They have no imagination. A tail is just a tail to them, just a little something extra in the back.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

When life gives you lemons, make orange juice, and leave the world wondering how the hell you did it.

Grammar used to make a good exercise . . . before the days of crosswords.

Öte yandan, modern dünya ?iirinin kurucular?n?n ?iirin yap?s?nda yapt?klar? devrim, dizeyi de yerinden oynatm??t?r." ?lhan Berk, 'Poetika', sayfa 36

I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson

Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is continuing to try the same approach to solve a problem but expecting different results.

Put aside a few minutes today to imagine and play. -Aaron Jhinkoo

Unleash Your Creativity. -Aaron Jhinkoo

People come, students and everyone else, to be inspired by the biennale. They expect to see architecture as a kind of seismograph of where we are.

It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

Come. Your future awaits." "What kind of future hides out in the Ghost of Internets Past?" R.C.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

If you were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

I suppose everyone is a daydreamer, but I was better at it than most.

This is where the inspiration for books comes from. Images and ideas and sounds from these worlds seep through the water and into our dimension. And those things inspire people like you. Storytellers.

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.