Quotes About Innovation

Because there are so many kids, they run schools like factories, or dare I say, jails. You're put into lines and rows and moved when a bell rings. None of this is conducive to deep thinking or creativity. You start to go deep into a subject, and a bell rings to pull you out of it.

Intense psychological stress tends to shut down the part of the brain responsible for innovative, creative thought.

Too bad there isn't a special paint that couldn't be used on aging humans to fix them right.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

These handkerchief gardens are a traditional German solution to apartment dwellers' yearning for a tool shed and a vegetable garden. They make a patchwork of green in odd corners of urban land, along train lines or canals or, as here, in the lee of the Wall.

Courage is saying, Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else.

Nature is the greatest developer of art.

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had." [ Commencement Speech ; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

Simply Splendid Solution Suddenly

She wasn't sure which motivation made better fuel for innovation: naïve but ethical beliefs, or the need to survive.

Back then, she was certain she could change the world just by making commits to a text file repository,

She just wouldn't stop reimplementing operating system features for her programming class. The only thing keeping her alive was a feeding tube the docs had managed to force up her nose while she was in restraints.

Plus, it was made by Zaxy, the company behind Smartifex, Brillicent, and other popular work enhancement drugs.

Nothing made her want to strip a man naked more than knowing he had good ideas

Paladin had nothing to say to that, so he decided to pry. "What do you do?" "I make custom penises.

I've read about bots who were built autonomous. But I didn't realize you were …" "Out in the world, being autonomous?" Med laughed. "Yeah." Jack laughed with her. "Robotics isn't really my area. I'm more on the genomics end of things." "Me too," the bot replied.

Then, they took things to the next level: They founded an anonymized text repo together,

Watching them, Jack had to admit that the Free Lab did resemble the ideal research space she and Krish had dreamed about back in the days of The Bilious Pills. Everything they produced was open and unpatented. All their schematics and research papers were on the public net. Almost anyone, even nonstudents, could use the Free Lab equipment if they had an interesting idea.

Swearwords were one of the best things humans had invented...

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change. (Richard Rorty, philosopher)