Quotes About Innovation

We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

You have T20 and that also plays a part in some of the shots batsmen play. You see guys playing the same shots in T20s and Tests and are sometimes lucky to get away with it.

I would say T20 cricket has introduced a more positive attitude in players and led to Tests also being played more aggressively and being more result oriented.

Education has to be more than tests and formulas.

We've become so accustomed to teaching to the tests that we've forgotten about a child's joy of discovery.

Franklin was a practical man. Practical men usually do not make revolutions; dreamers do.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing signs. They throw suspension bridges across great distances. These elegant and unexpected combinations flow together beautifully in the twilight zone, where metaphor and resemblance rules in place of logic and classification.

In my dream, the Angel shrugged and said, "If we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination." And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand. — ERICA JONG

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.

Now a new era had dawned upon the world, which quivered with the impact of tremendous forces, of discoveries and inventions. Man rode upon the air, sent his voice across the seas, divided the indivisible, and penetrated the impenetrable. Audacious, optimistic, and indefatigable, he might even forget God altogether, and raise his limitless towers like altars to none other than himself.

The scientist must be free to follow unexpected paths as they appear.

When things need to change, think S.C.A.M.P.E.R. -- coined by Bob Eberle:

The secret to making decisions is to ask questions and use templates to work on the answers. To think outside the box, remember to S.C.A.M.P.E.R by Substituting, Combining, Adapting, Modifying, Purposing, and Eliminating. And ensure you are setting S.M.A.R.T. goals which are Specific, Measurable, Action-Oriented, Relevant, and Time-Bound.

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.