Innovation Quote by Jared Diamond

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

— Marshall McLuhan

Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

— Robert E. Ornstein

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

— Charles Kettering

“Still, many of the advantages enjoyed by millions of people today emerged from designs and inventions produced by innovators inspired by nothing more than…

— Ted Koppel

Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

— Douglas Lenat

“when one looks at innovation in nature and in culture, environments that build walls around good ideas tend to be less innovative in the…

— Steven Johnson

“So long as we are driven by the need to make up for our needs; by the restless sense that we are not yet…

— David Malouf

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

— Jared Diamond

“We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it resembles nature,…

— Francoise Gilot

“Every significant invention must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared…

— Anonymous

There's something about living in the country that I think makes you inventive, because nature is full of miracles and wonder and surprises, and…

— Terry Gilliam

Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling with things, making contraptions. I'd see…

— Joy Mangano