Chill Quote by Joseph Sobran

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

— Michel de Montaigne

I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little uncomfortable with…

— Dean Kamen

Great innovation only happens when people aren't afraid to do things differently.

— Georg Cantor

Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest…

— James Surowiecki

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

— Robert Metcalfe

Our inventions won't be pretty toys, or show up in movies, which distract our attention from serious things, they are but improved but means…

— Henry Thoreau

Let there be no innovation; keep to what has been handed down.

— Pope Stephen I

People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic…

— Bill Gates

Innovation and its allure can be dangerous. It can draw you away from the user, from the intended outcome, and may be the ultimate…

— Mark Brand

For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of…

— Steve Case

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was…

— Dean Kamen

Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed…

— Arthur Koestler