Quotes About Innovation

Revolutionary ideas may be wonderful, but revolutions are nasty. You can't cure a headache by cutting off the patients head.

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They were the progressives, the freethinkers, the radicals of their day. History favoured such people. They had brought great change, and great innovation, and the present was all the greater for their inspiration. But now, Ibrahim believed, the pendulum had swung too far. The Great Cause had become merely an ideology, and ideology, Ibrahim knew only too well, was the antithesis of reason.

By developing products that make a positive difference in people's lives, companies can make the world a safer and better place. Whether

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

So it was not superior thinkers, inventors or businesses that made Europe rich, but the fact that European elites were less successful in obstructing them... This is somewhat similar to our era of globalization. More countries, in more places, now have access to the sum of humanity's knowledge, and are open to the best innovations from other places... If progress is blocked in one place, many others will continue humanity's journey. (217-218)

Inom några decennier kommer minnesproblem och hjärnsjukdomar kunna vara minnen blott. Blinda kommer att se, döva att höra och förlamade att gå.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

seeing this as a debate between whether you are pro-tech or anti-tech is bogus and lets the people who stole your attention off the hook. The real debate is: What tech, designed for what purposes, in whose interests?

Jarod Lanier - a veteran Silicon Valley engineer - told me he used to be a consultant for loads of dystopian Hollywood movies, like Minority Report, but he had to stop because he kept designing ever-more frightening technologies to warn people of what was coming - and designers kept responding by saying that's so cool; how do we make that?

Second, when your mind wanders, it starts to make new connections between things—which often produces solutions to your problems.

The web, by contrast, is "less than ten thousand days old.

Nada tiene que quedarse como está. Si un dogma no funciona, por muy fuerte e inamovible que parezca, siempre puede uno desecharlo y plantear algo distinto.

When we sleep, our minds start to identify connections and patterns from what we've experienced during the day. This is one of the key sources of our creativity—it's why narcoleptic people, who sleep a lot, are significantly more creative.

Many Silicon Valley insiders predicted that it would only get worse. One of its most famous investors, Paul Graham, wrote: "Unless the forms of technological progress that produced these things are subject to different laws than technological progress in general, the world will get more addictive in the next forty years than it did in the last forty.

one of my biggest learnings as a designer or technologist is—making something easy to use doesn't mean it's good for humanity.

We could have looked instead at what does work: changing the environment in specific ways.

As a society, we are dreaming less and less.

das Maßnehmen is ein altes Vorurteil, das die Schneider doch nicht hindert, jedes neue G'wand zu verpfuschen.

Only the perverse fantasy can still save us.

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.