innovation Quotes

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

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