Quotes About Innovation

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.

Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

Le cinéma sonore a inventé le silence.

There must, at a certain point, be a transformation. If not, there is no art.

Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

That far land we dream about,Where every man is his own architect.

Over the past century and a half, we've gone from harnessing animals—and enduring all the shit they shat—to harnessing the subatomic motion of electrons.

He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.

Make a virtue of necessity.

We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer…. Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

What if your company has made a commitment to a certain database, or a certain web server, or a certain framework? A good architect pretends that the decision has not been made, and shapes the system such that those decisions can still be deferred or changed for as long as possible. A good architect maximizes the number of decisions not made.

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. —Bjarne Stroustrup, 1991

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build, and test." —Ray Ozzie, CTO, Microsoft Corporation

creative output depends on creative input.