Quotes About Innovation

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. "I already know the important things!" we say. Then Changer comes and throws our old ideas away. —THE ZENSUFI MASTER

Our supremacy on Caladan," the Duke said, "depended on sea and air power. Here, we must develop something I choose to call desert power. This

If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness—they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

La burocrazia distrugge l'iniziativa. Poche sono le cose che i burocrati odiano più delle innovazioni, specialmente quelle innovazioni che producano risultati migliori delle vecchie abitudini. I miglioramenti fanno sempre sembrare inetti quelli che sono in cima al mucchio. A chi piace sentirsi inetto?

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

It is naive to expect any bureaucracy to take brilliant innovations and put them to good use. Bureaucracies ask different questions.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept? —A GUIDE TO TRIAL AND ERROR IN GOVERNMENT, BENE GESSERIT ARCHIVES

You cannot back into the future

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation which produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run.

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking—there's the real danger. Look at how long you walked across this desert without thinking about your face mask.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind

Madness in method, that is genius.

We have created a monster — enormously valuable and even useful yet extremely dangerous. Our monster is both beautiful and terrifying. We do not dare use this monster to its full potential, but we cannot release our grasp upon it. — Gowachin assessment of the Dosadi experiment

Thou shall not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.

Soltanto gli sciocchi preferiscono il passato!

The future is a thing to be shaped

Ove Malkyjeve rije?i, kao i mnoge druge stvari koje mi je izravno pisao, navode na zaklju?ak da je gospodar Leto uvijek u potrazi za novinom i izvornoš?u, ali je i oprezan zbog razorne mo?i skrivene u takvim stvarima.

A typical hard-drive memory capacity these days is 30 gigabytes

If it sells, it's art.

An idea is salvation by imagination