Quotes About Innovation

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.

Beyond the personal discomfort, her larger point was that women aren't going to achieve social equality until some technological alternative is invented to save us from being the only sex expected to go through it. If men were the ones forced to endure this ordeal, obviously such a technological solution would long ago have been devised.

Bad taste never dies. It just keeps evolving.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

Art happens when a person of talent is seized with nervous energy and discovers that he or she has nothing to do except create.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

Maybe they're planning the next Project. They could mail snowballs to the weather-deprived children in Texas. They could knit goat-hair blankets for shorn sheep.

Picasso. He whispers like a priest. Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, moulded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.

Cubism. Seeing beyond what is on the surface. Moving both eyes and a nose to the side of the face. Dicing bodies and tables and guitars as if they were celery sticks, and rearranging them so that you have to really see them to see them.

Welcome to the only class that will teach you to how to survive" Welcome to Art.

When we were girls we rode horses disguised as bicycles

Every so often, one encounters a woman of her type who reaches past the distractions of position, pleasure, and society's assumptions to become something greater. And even more rarely, one finds a woman who craves not power, but the chance to create something new.

Well, that was well before awesome. People who say awesome now wouldn't be born for another thirty years. What's it about, Bern? Colonies on Alpha Centauri? Space ships shooting at each other with lasers?

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Obviously generating revenue is what this is all about anymore, which is sad, but again, you have to find ways to make it work. But, yeah, that's certainly intriguing.

One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.

It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.