quotations about innovation
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
The Worst Years of Our Lives
Not all innovation is progress; but all progress is innovation.
DAVID THOMAS
attributed, Day's Collacon
To innovate is not to reform.
EDMUND BURKE
A Letter to a Noble Lord
If being innovative is part of our basic genetic makeup, then what diminishes the innovative capacity of so many people? A partial answer is the benign neglect we invite into our lives. Instead of being alert and engaged, many people opt to be essentially absent because it's easy, and mostly without immediate risk.
STEPHEN DI BIASE
10 Keys To Unlock Your Innovative Self
The quaking bystanders in a superstitious age would soon have slain an isolated bold man in the beginning of his innovations.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Physics and Politics