Quotes About Innovation

lands behind the former Iron Curtain: the West has its own versions now. On the other hand, Brave New World hasn't gone away. Shopping malls stretch as far as the bulldozer can see. On the wilder fringes of the genetic engineering community, there are true believers prattling of the Gen-rich

A beleza atrai, e nós não queremos que ninguém seja atraído pelas coisas antigas. Queremos que amem as novas.

O que nos leva por fim - continuou o Sr. Foster - a deixar o domínio da simples imitação servil da natureza para entrar no mundo mais interessante da invenção humana

I see her as a kind of Midas, turning everything she touched into imagination.

History is bunk.

four-seater sporticopter. They'd be late for dinner if he didn't come soon.

Ford help him!

The mental climate of our age is not favorable to visionaries.

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes, even science.

Ford's in his flivver,' murmured the D.H.C. 'All's well with the world.

La belleza ejerce una atracción, y nosotros no queremos que la gente se sienta atraída por cosas antiguas. Queremos que les gusten las nuevas.

No podemos permitir que la ciencia destruya su propia obra. Por esto limitamos tan escrupulosamente el alcance de sus investigaciones.

Strange, mused the Director, as they turned away. Strange to think that even in Our Ford's day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's madness. Nowadays, the Controllers won't approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicating of existing games.

Encuentro que la vida es aburrida y estúpida por falta de imaginación. Demasiada razón, demasiada disciplina en todo.

El arte no es cosa de experiencia; es cosa de imaginación. Javier de Maistre hacía viajes maravillosos alrededor de su cuarto; Beethoven era sordo; Milton cuando escribió el canto a la luz, estaba ciego.

The single thought that can empower us to empower the world: Mankind's use of fossil fuels is supremely virtuous-because the human life is the standard of value, and because using fossil fuels transforms our environment to make it wonderful for human life.

Constructing efficient and beautiful infrastructure is part of building efficient and beautiful markets.

We create the kind of markets we want. If we build elegant infrastructure, we have elegant markets.

Rather than just reacting to events, as transportation planners tend to do with traffic congestion, makers of, say, a patent system can construct one to reward creators or distribute intellectual property in ways that are not simply reacting to market pressures. We don't only have to enlarge what is there. We can light out for new territory, and make new places, and markets.

most of the great accomplishments of the world have not been made by people who were certain.

That's unfortunate. Because most of the great accomplishments of the world have not been made by people who were certain. The accomplishments have come about as a result of people who had doubts. I don't know if this is going to work. I don't know how to solve this problem. And then they work on it. As opposed to, Well, this is the way to solve the problem.

the Spaniards think, and the French think up.

Ideas never die, but they just sometimes fall into a dream, only to be awaken much stronger than they were when asleep

But that's exactly the problem, retorted Isabel. We're all stuck with the same tired and trusted ideas. If we refused to entertain the possibility of something radically different, then we'd never make any progress - ever. We'd still be thinking that the sun revolved round the earth.