Quotes About Innovation

But, of course, of course, I imitated everyone! Except myself. -- Pablo Picasso

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself—and thus make yourself indispensable.

Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

The filmmaker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last, the equal of the novelist.

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

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Frontiers of any type, physical or mental, are but a challenge to our breed. Nothing can stop the questing of men, not even Man. If we will it, not only the wonders of space, but the very stars are ours!

Your brilliant first flop was a raging success! Come on, let's get busy and on to the next!" She handed a notebook to Rosie Revere, who smiled at her aunt as it all became clear. Life might have its failures, but this was not it. The only true failure can come if you quit.

Your brilliant first flow was a raging success! Come on, let's get busy and on to the next!" She handed a notebook to Rosie Revere, who smiled at her aunt as it all became clear. Life might have its failures, but this was not it. The only true failure can come if you quit.

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President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?

I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.

Death is not enough for such men. We must add mechanics

I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny.… " —Author and former biochemistry professor Isaac Asimov

if you are smart enough, you can look at anything and think of twenty possible ways that is might be useful at some point in the future, so you just keep it.

I just really like computers.

Andrew Clements