Quotes about Innovation

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.

We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.

Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined.

I was always a guy who could score the ball as a kid, but everybody wanted to score. And I always wanted to be different in some type of way.

Gibson wrote 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed.

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.