Quotes About Innovation

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create!

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be... Don't merely dream... but create..

The great successful men of the work have used their imagination…they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in there, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building.

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.

He knew that some believed that standardization would impede innovation; that was one of the arguments people who resisted standardization were most inclined to make. But Barton was not so sure of that.

Iterative, adaptive approach that recognized the importance of developing prototypes or else manually walking through how the system would work in great detail, to discover problems that could not be foreseen any other way, and to make midcourse adjustments

I don't worry about artificial intelligence. I worry about artificial stupidity.

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

Somestimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It force you to come up with a more creative way.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

John Cleese, in a clever, funny talk he gave on creativity years ago, said you also need a sense of humour if you want to be creative. You can't manufacture a sense of humour, but if you don't have one, then you might indeed be better off reporting facts. Art is not about reporting.

Ramsey spun an uncurled paper clip

All the rules had to be invented from the beginning. No one knew what the rules were, but gradually figured them out. The basics were: We've got to take a line. We've got to stay up off the floor. We have to have enough light to see. And we have to save enough air to get out.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make them real.

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not'NB This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.

Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.

Even Mozart, perhaps the most gifted composer in history, developed and grew in his art. The music he wrote in his thirties was far more advanced than what he wrote in his twenties or in his teens. The more music he wrote, the more he was able to write.

Do not follow where the path may lead...Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.