Quotes About Innovation

He was a "how" thinker, not an "if" thinker.

Quilters know all the angles.

Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in man.

Veni, Vidi, Velcro. I came, I saw, I stuck around.

Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development. Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.

Neither do men put new wine into old bottles.

When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that.

Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though.

Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.

Old hackers never die. They just go to bitnet.

Old programmers never die. They just branch out to a new address.

Old programmers never die. They just can't C as well.

Optimization hinders evolution.

Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.

Sped up my XT ran it on 220v Works greO

The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.

The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.

There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one works.

We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.

On ne saurait faire une omelette sans casser des oeufs [You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs].

Pereant qui nostra ante nos dixerunt [May they perish who have used our words before us].

Mater artium necessitas [Necessity is the mother of invention].

That table looks good," I say "It is original." Original what? What does it mean when they say that? This table is original. This pencil is an original pencil. This horse is an original horse. How can there be any other kind?