Quotes about Innovation

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

The universal and ever-present urge to self-transcendence is not to be abolished by slamming the current popular Doors in the Wall. The only reasonable policy is to open other, better doors in the hope of inducing men and women to exchange their old habits for new and less harmful ones.

And it's what you never will write, said the Controller. Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.

We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones." "But the new ones are so stupid and horrible.

Science and technology would be used as though, like the Sabbath, they ahd been made for man, not as though man were to be adapted and enslaved to them.

We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful.

Science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.