Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

Mainstream science starts as heresy.

All great ideas are dangerous.

A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

It's always difficult when you want to do something really new, and you also want it to reach the masses, because the majority of people want to see what they've already seen before, or that they're already familiar with. To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult.

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.

Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.

It would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.