Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.

Progress only happens with change, and people love something different.

I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.