Quotes About Innovation

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

Rhinoceros The Leader The Future is in Eggs or It Takes all Sorts to Make a World

If we have to have motors to help us fly, it's no longer natural. People call this progress, but there's nothing progressive about walking with crutches. Soon we shall forget to walk, too, if we don't look out.

It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.

Management exists to keep the company on a steady course and provide reliability and predictability. Paradoxically, this can create blindspots that go beyond work processes and procedures, adversely affecting a company's core strategy.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web in order to help him remember his colleagues at CERN. "The Web is more a social creation than a technical one," he explains.

Podemos canalizar a revolução da web 2.0 de maneira construtiva, de modo que ela enriqueça ao invés de matar nossa economia, cultura e valores

Rather than creating more competition, it has created immensely powerful new monopolists like Google and Amazon.

T. H. Huxley, the nineteenth-century evolutionary biologist and author of the "infinite monkey theorem." Huxley's theory says that if you provide infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters, some monkey somewhere will eventually create a masterpiece—

Can I interest you in a battery-operated vagina?

Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind.

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Well now, look at this, they keep winter in a box. That's clever," she congratulated me. Then she shut the fridge door...

Science strides ahead; politics stumbles around like a drunk. We saw it in the age of discovery and the age of empire, but it was particularly glaring in the twentieth century – and, I would add (so far), the twenty-first too.

Gutenberg had died after inventing Europe's first real printing press. The Chinese and Koreans had long used wood-block printing, and even ceramic printing.

Nothing, sad to say, has advanced technical progress faster than war.

Human history, properly understood, starts when we move from being just another form of prey in the cycle of eat-and-be-eaten, a creature blown about by the natural world, to a creature beginning to shape the world. We move from happens-to, to makes-happen. But

So I did something that you're not supposed to do, one more addition to an expanding universe of said things.

one of the gifts of science: when you discover a new truth, you also gain a new way of looking at things that can change your perspective.

We did those things when we were acting of fear from the cold war. After 9/11 we learned a new kind of fear. A whole generation of brilliant minds started imagining all of the scary things that bad people could do to using genetic engineering, computer viruses, nanotechnology and a thousand other technologies.' 'Once you start thinking

threat, as well as a trillion-dollar biotechnology industry that keeps coming up with new ways to scare us.

All of the technology described in this book is either currently being tested on the launch pad or in advance stages of development. This is a story of the very near future.

Andrew Mayne