Innovation Quote by Vernor Vinge

“Theories were clean and convincing and comprehensible. Life was messy and full of nonsense.”

— Julian Barnes

“He invented a machine for reading underwater and nearly drowned in the bath because it worked.”

— A.S. Byatt

“Every invention began as an imagination.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“I can see brown-tinged water rushing through one pipe, disappearing into the machine, and emerging clear. Both of us watch the purification happen, and…

— Veronica Roth

“Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“No one, it appears, took up his offer to commercialize his invention; like other inventions of his, it worked well for him, but mere…

— Morton N. Cohen

“He was allying himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the presence of money? His life would…

— Henry James

“But what was it in himself he needed to look at so much that he'd invented this elaborate scenario?”

— Allan G. Hunter

“The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to…

— Alexander Graham Bell

“He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It’s just that all the science had…

— Carl Sagan

“It’s one thing to be given a big boxful of theory and quite another to make an engine out of it.”

— Alastair Reynolds

“You can't live in the world without an idea of the world, but it's living that makes the ideas. You can't wait for a…

— Tony Kushner