Quotes About Innovation

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Ratio became a working hypothesis, a heuristic principle, and thus led to the incomparable rise of technology. This was something fundamentally new in world history. From the Egyptian pyramids to the Greek temples, from the medieval cathedrals up to the eighteenth century, technology was a matter of handicraft. It served religion, royalty, culture, and people's daily needs.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

Walking on water and developing software to specification are easy as long as both are frozen.

But she was not of those who believe in the sanctity of handwork, however crude. There is no particular point in doing by hand what can be done as well and better by machine.

A fresh approach to a work of music (...) usually comes to those who have a fresh approach to aspects of life, to life in general.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

When I discovered that there was actually a thing called a push-up bra, that, to me, had to be equal of the day Einstein figured out that relativity thing.

come in a dream or a flash of insight. Frequently you have read of inventors telling that when they waked, the answer to whatever it was, was there in their brains. This

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

Agora até um frango tem mais tecnologia do que carne.

All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme'. John Lennon1

But what can be learned from trivia? A history of inventions reveals we made the gun silencer (1908) before air conditioning (1911), the kaleidoscope (1817) before Braille printing (1829), cocaine (1860) before penicillin (1929). It's a story about pleasure before usefulness, about ingenuity in killing before improving our everyday lives." The Beautiful Miscellaneous,

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

Once again, it must be reiterated that beliefs and practices that developed in response to earlier, and presumably different, environmental pressures tend to persist, and the result may come to be far less than efficient utilization of an environment

For every album we worked on, I brought in reels of tape of somewhere between fourteen and eighteen songs - some of them completed, with lyrics and melodies, some of them basic tracks. Things came out of those products. Like, for 'Hotel California', I think I had a reel with sixteen songs on it.

One of the songs we recorded for 'The Long Run' was called 'You're Really High, Aren't You?' Which never really made it onto a record, but later on, it became 'Heavy Metal.' I took that track that wasn't used, and when I was invited to write a song for that movie, I took that track and recorded that song for that movie.

That last record I did, I think I played every guitar on the entire record. I want to do something more fun and exciting.

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.