Quotes About Innovation

Don't you just love the idea of cooking flowers? I imagine them bursting into bloom, right in the pan.

but when I told her they didn't cost one penny and were very nutritious (I made that part up, but I'm sure it must be true), she ate them up. She packed them into her lunch pail this morning, and when I looked

I was the cheerleader, the instigator, creating chaos, insisting we make changes right up to the last minute when someone came up with a better idea.

I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.

And with an inventiveness no one would have suspected from the standard of Stanley's school work:

I keep thinking, won't somebody make a movie like what's inside my head, I'm always thinking that.

Americans love to mess about with the brain--that's why they are at the forefront of neurosurgery.

Genius never desires what does not exist.

Every reality that we can make begins with a dream

If learning lessons from history is a mark of enlightenment, so is breaking free from it.

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.

Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

Any new idea is asked two questions. The first is asked when it's weak: What kind of an idea are you? Are you the kind the compromises, does deals, accommodates itself to society? Aims to find a niche to survive? Or are you the cursed, bloody-minded ram rod type of damn fool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? The kind, that almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of a hundred , be smashed to bits, but the hundredth time will change the world?

Fortunately for Luka, he lived in an age in which an almost infinite number of parallel realities had begun to be sold as toys.

The question of essences remains at the heart of the adaptive act; how to make a second version of a first thing, of a book or film or poem or vegetable, or of yourself, that is successfully its own new thing and yet carries with it the essence, the spirit, the soul of the first thing, the thing that you yourself, or your book or poem or film or your mango or lime, originally were.

Religious moderation, insofar as it represents an attempt to hold on to what is still serviceable in orthodox religion, closes the door to more sophisticated approaches to spirituality, ethics, and the building of strong communities. Religious moderates seem to believe that what we need is not radical insight and innovation in these areas but a mere dilution of Iron Age philosophy.

Religious moderates seem to believe that what we need is not radical insight and innovation in these areas but a mere dilution of Iron Age philosophy.

The Bible, it seems certain, was the work of sand-strewn men and women who thought the earth was flat and for whom a wheelbarrow would have been a breathtaking example of emerging technology.

If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this.

Coach may have been the greatest innovator the sport has ever had.

Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!

I believe that the material doesn't need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with the strength of the material.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.