Innovation Quotes

The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.

We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.

We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

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

Time after time, history ran over the luddites and romanticists, those who sought to restore the old and delay the new. And every time, history did it with faster, more reliable and more advanced vehicles.

At this point the march of invention brought a new factor upon the scene. Iron was dug and forged. Men armed with iron entered Britain from the Continent and killed the men of bronze. At this point we can plainly recognise across the vanished millenniums a fellow-being. A biped capable of slaying another with iron is evidently to modern eyes a man and a brother.

They have destroyed your weapons, but these weapons would in any case have become obsolete before the next war. That war will be fought with brand-new ones, and the army which is least hampered with obsolete material will have a great advantage.

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear.

I don't want to keep playing the same formula over and over again, otherwise you just go insane. I don't want to become stale. I want to be creative.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.

I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

I would like to ask you, what would you like to be remembered for? You should write it down. It could be an important contribution, whether it is an invention, an innovation or a change that you bring about in society that the nation will remember you for.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.