Quotes About Innovation

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

There is always something new out of Africa.

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Out of Africa, there is always something new.

Ex Africa semper aliquid novi.

It is not true that the world is too tired and exhausted to produce anything worth praising.

At IndieBio, I quickly learned there was no such master plan— but more than that, it was wrong to think this period we face could be planned out at all. It was fast, blind, and dense. Nobody is an expert in the unknown. Planning wasn't the way to solve it. Experimenting was. There is no plan, just a way.

But replacing workers and making the remaining ones more productive are literally the same thing. If

The biggest lie of all is the notion that robots don't take jobs, they create jobs. The robots don't do that— the humans do.

The Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution are intertwined much like all chicken-and-egg problems. One couldn't have happened without the other. Social change sometimes triggers technological change; sometimes it's the other way around. But they always go hand in hand. No technological revolution fails to be directly connected to a social revolution, either just before or just after.

Would you really want to live in world where only the possible is possible?

Evolution is cut-and-try.

Robotics is never yet got to where live brains can be altogether replaced, except in bureaucrats.

Kita semua harus menerima kenyataan, tapi menerima kenyataan saja adalah pekerjaan manusia yang tak mampu lagi berkembang. Karena manusia juga bisa membikin kenyataan-kenyataan baru. Kalau tak ada orang mau membikin kenyataan-kenyataan baru, maka "kemajuan" sebagai kata dan makna sepatutnya dihapuskan dari kamus umat manusia.

Sebelum kertas ditemukan oleh Tsai'Lun, sebelum mesin cetak ditemukan oleh Johann Gutenberg dimana keduanya menjadi medium tradisi tulis, peradaban dibangun oleh segulungan kisah dongeng

Adat itu bikin orang jadi bodo. Adat larang orang kampung belajar menulis, membaca, bikin gambar.

We all have to accept reality, yes, that's true. But just to accept reality and do nothing else, that is the attitude of human beings who have lost the ability to develop and grow, because human beings also have the ability to create new realities. And if there are no longer people who want to create new realities, then perhaps the word progress should be removed altogether from humankind's vocabulary.

A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas.

Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free.

There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.

we have to create machines to allow us to continue creating machines becouse what machines are never going to do is to create machines

Revolutions begin in the best heads, and run steadily down to the populace.

All trends and tendencies will bow before incisive minds.