Quotes About Innovation

But would you believe it? I couldn't remember one word when I woke up this morning. And I'm afraid I'll never be able to think out another one as good. Somehow, things never are so good when they're thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that?

It's the first thing I ever saw that couldn't be improved upon by imagination.

I mostly always have to tell them what to write about, but that isn't hard for I've millions of ideas.

The trouble with Mr. Howard is that he's a leetle TOO clever. He thinks that he's bound to live up to his cleverness, and that it's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common, ignorant folks is travelling. But

Remember, there's more than one way to skin a cat. It can be done so that the animal will never know he's lost his hide.

She was an expert in dealing with situations without precedent.

Es la primera cosa que he visto que no podría ser mejorada por la imaginación.

Legend reports that Gloriana did not even take kindly to that most dangerous of mechanical devices, the flush toilet, and though she thanked its inventor, she preferred more tried-and-true methods of sanitation.

There is the capitalist approach (make it bigger), the technocratic one (make it better), the 'revolutionary' solution (portray the problem as an example of an exploitative system) and the pre-industrial romantic fallacy (don't use it; maybe it will go away by itself). We propose a fifth alternative response: Let's invent a different answer."28

Everything starts as somebody's dream.

Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should stop evolving.

Engineers. You had to love them. (The alternative was strangling them, and he didn't want that catching on.) There

Did I still remember how to let my mind play?

Why hadn't they built a lot of little Ringworlds instead?

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

Engineers. You had to love them. (The alternative was strangling them, and he didn't want that catching on.)

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris

It wasn't just about shaping a block of wood into what you wanted it to be. That it was also a peeling back, to seeing what was inside the wood, what the wood had been before. It was the first step to creating something beautiful. It was the first step to making something out of nothing

La necesidad es la madre de todos los inventos y todas las posturas.

How many software developers does it take to change a lightbulb? None, it's a hardware problem.

If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light, Ma considered. We didn't lack for light when I was a girl before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of. That's so, said Pa. These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraph and kerosene and coal stoves--they're good things to have, but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

That machine's a great invention! he said. Other folks can stick to old-fashioned ways if they want to, but I'm all for progress. It's a great age we're living in. As long as I raise wheat, I'm going to have a machine come and thresh it, if there's one anywhere in the neighborhood.

That's the noise that made the Redcoats run! Mr. Paddock said to Father. Maybe, Father said, tugging his beard. But it was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes and plows that made this country. That's so, come to think of it, Mr. Paddock said.