Quotes about Innovation

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

But the adjectives change," said Jimmy. "Nothing's worse than last year's adjectives.

Forbidden things are open to the imagination.

It was a wicked game. "Homer," says Snowman, making his way through the dripping-wet vegetation. "The Divine Comedy. Greek statuary. Aqueducts. Paradise Lost. Mozart's music. Shakespeare, complete works. The Brontës. Tolstoy. The Pearl Mosque. Chartres Cathedral. Bach. Rembrandt. Verdi. Joyce. Penicillin. Keats. Turner. Heart transplants. Polio vaccine. Berlioz. Baudelaire. Bartok. Yeats. Woolf.

Think of an adaptation, any adaptation, and some animal somewhere will have thought of it first.

Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.