Quotes About Innovation

But look closer, this revolver is North Korean. It was constructed by our own engineers and is actually a forty-six-caliber, a little bigger, a little more powerful than the American model

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

I'm inspired by history, different periods.

I'm very inspired by past music.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

Let us say that science fiction is a kind of conceptual disorientation of the familiar.

Antislavery, rather than slavery, was the world-historical innovation of the era.

Duplication and transfer from other genetic sources are examples of nature's ability to co-opt existing tools: evolution the tinkerer. Evolution also creates from scratch. We call these de novo mutations, and they arise when a seemingly nonsensical run of DNA mutates and changes into a readable sentence.

For the sake of perspective, life has existed on Earth for about 3.9 billion years. The species Homo sapiens, of which you are a member, emerged a mere 300,000 years ago, as far as we know, in pockets in the east and north of Africa. Writing began about 6,000 years ago, in Mesopotamia, somewhere in what we now call the Middle East.

Flight is a good trick, and has evolved repeatedly in distantly related creatures, but it has also evolved many times over within the same groups of creatures.

The revolution was not televised; it was livestreamed.

By 40,000 years ago, there are clear, unequivocal depictions of figurative art in multiple forms, and clear evidence for imagination, abstract thought, music and profound fine motor skills. Something had changed.

We have good evidence that Homo erectus, that highly successful human who walked all over the Earth from 1.9 million years ago until around 140,000 years ago, was a fire user in some capacity. The dates when they first utilised fire remain disputed.

Many people know of the maxim said by the biologist François Jacob describing natural selection as a tinkerer. I like to think of the words of the US president Teddy Roosevelt: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

The greatest achievement of the Human Genome Project was working out exactly how little we knew— known unknowns. Once you know what you need to know, the future is laid out in front of you. And so, the map was sketched, and the landscape was set out— where to explore, and what we might be hunting for.

was not an apple that gave us this knowledge – apples are a product of our own agricultural ingenuity. It was how we lived our lives.

All scientists need to be wrong as often as they can be, for that is the place from which we discover what is correct, and inch ever closer to the truth.

Some researchers suppose that the presence of tools represents the boundary between the genus Homo and what came before, meaning that humans are actually defined by tool use.

Every scientist knows that the most productive conversations happen in the bar.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!