Once you achieve intimacy and connection, I predict that…

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

— Henry David Thoreau

Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],…

— Abraham Lincoln

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

— Henry Rollins

“In the innovation age customer experience is key. Your impression defines their expression”

— Fela Durotoye

“Incrementalism never allows innovation to flourish.”

— Abhishek Ratna

I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one.

— Bonnie Hammer

Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how…

— Anton Zeilinger

Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in…

— Charles Best

We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that.

— Sarah Barthel

All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can…

— Ted Nordhaus

I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.

— Ann Makosinski

“Some innovations just don’t attract enough economic or social demand: just as supersonic flight and manned space flight stagnated after the 1970s, today (in…

— Martin J. Rees

We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that…

— Bill Gates

Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves…

— Stanwood Cobb

Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero