Quotes About Innovation

American productivity would, I believe, nearly double if everyone were free to work pantsless.

Science Fiction stories are the dazzling flares we launch into the darkness, to catch a glimpse of the country before us and show us our way.

James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

There are fascinating possibilities in this situation. I'd get it down on paper if I were you.

Baseball in the Negro Leagues was a little bit rougher, a little bit sweeter, a little bit faster, a little bit cooler, and a little bit more fun than anything... in Major League baseball.

One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project.

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

Until they found out how to activate the tractor beam." "They can think?

The Sumerians, living five thousand years ago in what is now Iran, are commonly believed to be the world's first civilization.

So why do some manufacturers bottle their product in clear glass bottles? Chemical ingenuity has made this nuance possible. Through the process of hydrogenation — much like the one we use for margarine — we can alter slightly the molecular structure of iso-humulone, making it stable in light.

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Ludwig van Beethoven, as you may have heard, was deaf.

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.

We have the new greatest generation. We don't need as large a military due to the technology we have, the equipment we have outfitting our personnel. They really are storm troopers.

When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.

He rises a copy of a poster. On the left is a quote from The New York Times dated October 9, 1903. It says,'The flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians in from one million to ten million years'. On the right is a quote from Orville Wright's diary, dated October 9, 1903. 'We started assembly today' it says.

The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education.

Humankind's greatest creation has always been its cities. They represent the ultimate handiwork of our imagination as a species, testifying to our ability to reshape the natural environment in the most profound and lasting ways. Indeed, today our cities can be seen from outer space. Cities

Google at the end of 2013 had a market cap six times that of General Motors while having one-fifth as many American workers.

Perhaps the outlook of the social entrepreneurs is best captured in the words of the great city planner and architect Daniel Burnham: "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Things change as they are discovered.

The ancient writer Suetonius tells the story that an inventor around 70 CE displayed to a Roman emperor a machine that could move columns, only to be dismissed with the objection that such labor-saving devices would cause the poor to starve by robbing them of employment.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.