Quotes About Innovation

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing ...

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.

The greatest intellectual and moral offense the modern intellectual can be found guilty of is that of seeming to think or act outside what is commonly held to be the linear progress of civilization.

I am billionaire bold bright omnipotent lively determined to go within to win opening my omnific eyes to realize wisdom innovation naturalizes… My cascading flow of financial love lavishly streams gold bars as I realize gold is intrinsic wealth as my intuitive imagination is my intrinsic innovations…

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.

Why should I keep doing things that I've done before?

People have asked me throughout the years which directors have influenced me. I don't know their names, because I was mostly influenced when I'd see a film and think, "Man, I want to be sure to never do anything like that." So I never learned their names. It wasn't a matter of copying or emulating somebody I admired. It was getting rid of a lot of stuff.

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

But in the real, messy world of creativity, giving away the thing you don't really understand for the thing that you do is an inevitable tradeoff.

Innovation is an unruly thing. There will be some ideas that don't get caught in your cup. But that's not what the game is about. The game is what you catch, not what you spill.

civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.

to make it climb, make it rhyme. Within

Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them. —Alfred North Whitehead

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

An Apple executive told The New York Times, "We don't have an obligation to solve America's problems. Our only obligation is making the best product possible.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.