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Innovation20 quotes
The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention. — Socrates · 375 BCIf you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook. — Mark Zuckerberg · 2010The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds. — Mark Twain · 1897A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. — Albert Einstein · 1949When a man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. — Guillaume Apollinaire · 1917Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. — Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1923All 20 quotes →Creativity8 quotes
The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention. — Socrates · 375 BCA new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. — Albert Einstein · 1949Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. — Mary Shelley · 1831Invention... Arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. — Agatha Christie · 1976Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. — Lawrence Durrell · 1958Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. — R.D. Laing · 1967All 8 quotes →Invention6 quotes
The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention. — Socrates · 375 BCIf you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook. — Mark Zuckerberg · 2010The best way to predict the future is to invent it. — Alan Kay · 1971Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. — Mary Shelley · 1831Invention... Arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. — Agatha Christie · 1976Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. — Lawrence Durrell · 1958Progress4 quotes
The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds. — Mark Twain · 1897Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. — Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1923I know you're taking it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall, he always gets bloody. Always. This is threatening not just a way of doing business, but in their minds, it's threatening the game. Really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs. It's threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it's the government, or a way of doing business, or whatever it is, the people who are holding the reins—they have their hands on the switch—they go batshit crazy. — John Henry · 2011Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room. — Heywood Broun · 1928Resistance to change4 quotes
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound
They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother
When they said that man could fly;
They told Marconi
Wireless was a phony-
It's the same old cry! — Ira Gershwin · 1937I know you're taking it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall, he always gets bloody. Always. This is threatening not just a way of doing business, but in their minds, it's threatening the game. Really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs. It's threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it's the government, or a way of doing business, or whatever it is, the people who are holding the reins—they have their hands on the switch—they go batshit crazy. — John Henry · 2011There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. — Niccolo Machiavelli · 1513New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. — John Locke · 1690New ideas3 quotes
The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds. — Mark Twain · 1897A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. — Albert Einstein · 1949Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room. — Heywood Broun · 1928Status quo3 quotes
I know you're taking it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall, he always gets bloody. Always. This is threatening not just a way of doing business, but in their minds, it's threatening the game. Really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs. It's threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it's the government, or a way of doing business, or whatever it is, the people who are holding the reins—they have their hands on the switch—they go batshit crazy. — John Henry · 2011There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. — Niccolo Machiavelli · 1513New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. — John Locke · 1690Thinking outside the box2 quotes
Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1821Wise people... Are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot just why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations. — Henry Ford · 1922Achievement1 quote
Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1821Anthropomorphism1 quote
When a man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. — Guillaume Apollinaire · 1917Capitalism1 quote
For most of my life I refused to work at any problem unless its solution seemed to be capable of being put to commercial use. — Thomas Edison · 1917Committees1 quote
Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. — Alfred Whitney Griswold · 1957Discovery1 quote
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. — Albert Einstein · 1949Genius and insanity1 quote
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. — R.D. Laing · 1967Heretics1 quote
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. — Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1923Human ingenuity1 quote
When a man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. — Guillaume Apollinaire · 1917Ideas1 quote
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. — R.D. Laing · 1967Insanity1 quote
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. — R.D. Laing · 1967Intuition1 quote
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. — Albert Einstein · 1949Originality1 quote
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound
They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother
When they said that man could fly;
They told Marconi
Wireless was a phony-
It's the same old cry! — Ira Gershwin · 1937Orthodoxy1 quote
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. — Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1923Profit motive1 quote
For most of my life I refused to work at any problem unless its solution seemed to be capable of being put to commercial use. — Thomas Edison · 1917Public opinion1 quote
Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1821Success1 quote
Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1821Technological progress1 quote
When a man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. — Guillaume Apollinaire · 1917The future1 quote
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. — Alan Kay · 1971The individual1 quote
Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. — Alfred Whitney Griswold · 1957The wheel1 quote
When a man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. — Guillaume Apollinaire · 1917Thinking big1 quote
Wise people... Are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot just why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations. — Henry Ford · 1922Thinking differently1 quote
The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds. — Mark Twain · 1897