Quotes About Innovation

Some of them are wearing skirts that I'm pretty sure are supposed to be belts.

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

When traditional rules reach so far down that they touch a child's lemonade stand, things have probably gotten a bit out of control.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production.

Does anybody honestly believe that human progress originates in the composite brain of the majority and not in the brain of the individual personality? Or may it be presumed that for the future human civilization will be able to dispense with this as a condition of its existence? But may it not be that, to-day, more than ever before, the creative brain of the individual is indispensable?

In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?

One has good grounds to be suspicious of any new idea, any doctrine, any new worldview, or any political or economical movement, that tries to deny everything that the past has produced, or to present it as inferior and worthless... Any renovation that's truly beneficial to human progress will always have to begin its constructive work where the last stones have been laid.

Does anybody honestly believe that human progress originates in the composite brain of the majority and not in the brain of the individual personality?

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

Art is something that must be overcome.

Human progress and human cultures are not founded by the multitude, they are the works of personal genius and personal efficiency

In the history of art, late works are the catastrophes.

If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.

Of the 1,223 new medicines developed between 1975 and 1997, just 13 were for tropical diseases. Only four sprang from the pharmaceutical industry's efforts to cure humans. None were found on purpose.

I saw an exhibition of paintings of alchemists once,' said Ruth. 'It used to be a popular setpiece. There was one I liked by Joseph Wright of Derby?of an alchemist who'd accidentally discovered phosphorus. He's just crouching there, staring in amazement at his test tube or alembic, or whatever you call it. A bloody good painting, actually.

They can also sell the same products in different ways to different groups of consumers (Britain's Viz magazine, with its fat slags and foul-mouthed yobs, is sold as a comic magazine in the south of the country but as an upmarket style guide in the north).

I'm attracted to roles that people don't necessarily see me in.

To do something very common, in my own way.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

We find ourselves at once in prehistory and in science fiction [ Shakespeare's Sisters .