Innovation

“It was the year I invented shorts. I found sweat-sodden cricket flannels were weighing me down, so my tailor ran up some prototype shorts.”

“Si on maintient cette créativité, cette volonté d’innover, de faire une musique d’avant-garde qui prend des risques, on a gagné.”

“You’re not hired to do a BAU job.”

“All you gotta do is rub two networks together and you get a fire.”

“That would have to be the landslide acceptance of phaco after so many years of struggle.”

“Arbeit an der Zukunft.”

“MOF water harvesters will serve as an instrument to make water a human right available to everyone.”

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

“The problem of television is solved. What remains to be done is entirely a matter of technical and commercial development.”

“I can’t think of any ways in which GPS improved on Timation. Essentially, they are the same system.”

“Technology is moving really fast.”

“道在日新，艺亦须日新，新者生机也；不新则死。”

“I am firmly convinced that it is along this path that the great international art of cinematography will make its further progress.”

“It seems that as the turbine is the most efficient prime mover known, it will be developed for aircraft.”

“My interest in aircraft propulsion began in the fall of 1933.”

“Certainly no 20 years in the history of aviation, and probably no 20 years in the future, will show such a succession of basic changes…as did the period of 1948–1968.”

“We have to use our ingenuity, use our sheer brains and imagination to find ways that take resources that are there and put them to work.”

“The patent system plays an essential role for the innovator in preventing others pirating his ideas before he has had time to perfect them.”