Philip Emeagwali Quotes

Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.

I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the advent of this nation, men were walking on the moon, and I want us to recognize this is the kind of people that we are. We're creative with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of energy.

Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Life is composed of different inventions.

Success, to me, is something new and vibrant.

Ultimately, progress and innovation win.

The future will bring new possibilities and ideas - and new terms for them.

There's so much in the world that has already been done, but there are plenty of things left for people who want to go get it.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

Now I got my foot - through the door - and I ain't goin' no where.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.