Quotes About Innovation

Let's experiment. Someone must have figured it out once, in order to write a book. Why can't we do the same thing?

Artist?' Thomas suggested. 'That's a word. I've never heard anyone say it, but I've read it in some of the books. It means, well, someone who makes something beautiful. Would that be a word?

It wasn't a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to Sameness.

I'm trying to ruin it! Will had bellowed back. So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells. (Mark Vorkosigan's first experience with warfare, on seeing Miles Vorkosigan splattered before him)

From spaceman to caveman in three days," she meditated aloud. "How we imagine our civilization is in ourselves, when it's really in our things.

We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement

Damned technocrats. Nothing but horse doctors with a more expensive set of toys.

A typical tech toy. High-end this year, everywhere next year, nowhere after that until the antiquarians revival.

Al sexto día, Dios vio que no podía hacer todo, entonces creó a los ingenieros

he was getting mortally tired of having to reinvent the wheel every fifteen minutes.

With the opposable thumb our ancestors made weapons, harnessed fire, fashioned tools and implements, created works of art, and hitch-hiked.

I'm confident that you are all saying to yourselves, "Why, I would have thought of that if I had nothing to do all day but to think about stuff!

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's corn bread-stale and dry.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

To vault from the trenches of habitual thinking -- that is the birth of genius. Traussbery

One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

We are a people of the frontier, born to it, bred to it, looking always toward it. And when the frontiers of our own land are gone, when we have drawn them all into an ordered world, then we must seek other frontiers, the frontiers of the mind beyond which men have not gone, the frontiers that lie out beyond the stars, the frontiers that lie within our own selves, that hold us back from what we would do, what we would achieve.

When there are no new ideas things can remain the same

Sadly, in these rush-rush, hurry-hurry days, not too many young people study the art of paper clip bending. There are only a handful of master benders left in the whole world. And who knows, in ten or twenty years there might not be any. Everyone will have to switch to staples.

to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.