Quotes about Innovation

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

The world you live in is shored up by a collective of agreements. Is that something you think about? The hope is that the truth of the world somehow lies in the common experience of it. Of course the history of science and mathematics and even philosophy is a good bit at odds with this notion. Innovation and discovery by definition war against the common understanding. One should be wary.

One may go against convention, but one must keep up tradition.

If you are satisfied with the results you are now getting, why change? If you are not satisfied, why not experiment?

way to get things done," says Schwab, "is to stimulate competition.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

I am so glad TV had not been invented then—it meant I had to, and most certainly did, exercise and develop my powers of imagination.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.