35 quotes
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.”
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
— Buckminster Fuller
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."
— John Maynard Keynes
"There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
— Elon Musk
"The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee."
— Carl Sagan
"That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund."
— Anthony Bourdain
"We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic."
— Sir Winston Churchill
"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."
— Thomas Edison
"There's a way to do it better - find it."
"The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered."
— Theodore Roosevelt
"Innovators are the ones whose dreams are clearer than the reality that tells them they're crazy."
— Simon Sinek
"The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain."
— Tesla
"All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options."
— Nassim Taleb
"Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory."
— Karl Lagerfeld
"New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?"
— H. G. Wells
"As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the births of time."
— Francis Bacon
"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car."
— Bono
"…once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…"
— Arthur C. Clarke
"Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection."
— Alexandre Dumas
"Civilization begins with distillation"
— William Faulkner
"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road."
— Voltaire