Quotes About Innovation

Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.

To cultivate a pleasure in being wrong sounds perverse, yet losing an argument means escaping from an old idea and the acquisition of a new way of looking at things.

En ik sta te denken dat je toch gehoopt zou hebben dat iemand na al die tijd een douche zou hebben uitgevonden waarbij het gemakkelijk is om het water op de juiste temperatuur te krijgen. Maar dat lijkt de zoveelste te zijn dat de mensheid maar niet voor elkaar krijgt.

In the century of Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Pascal, and Newton," one historian wrote, "the most versatile genius of all was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

in old times inventors were not always treated very kindly. If people thought they were sorcerers, or in league with the Devil, they did not care much for the invention.

Vorsprung durch Technik. Progress through technology.

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.

Better Things for Better Living . . . Through Chemistry.

The human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra.

Progress is our most important product.

See what brown can do for you.

We bring good things to life.

Intel inside.

I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.

As far as I'm concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.

It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature.

Carriages without horses shall go,And accidents fill the world with woe.

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization.

If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got.

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

A Short History of Medicine 2000 B.C. - "Here, eat this root." 1000 B.C. - "That root is heathen, say this prayer." 1850 A.D. - "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion." 1940 A.D. - "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill." 1985 A.D. - "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic." 2000 A.D. - "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root."

Ultimate office automation — networked coffee machines.

Interchangeable parts don't, leakproof seals aren't, and self-starters won't.

Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.