Quotes about Innovation

I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators become the low cost providers within an existing framework.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

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.