Percy W. Bridgman Quotes

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new - 'This is what I've been waiting for!' - and some people don't want or need the change - 'I like my old one.'

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

People who have a new idea often just stop having an old idea.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.

Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.

We can just keep doing it the way we're doing it. We can attack everybody for small-minded things and crush everybody with a new idea. And where are we going to be? Where we are now - behind. Or we can embrace new things and try to be positive and let everybody play a role.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Invention and entrepreneurship isn't about pure technology. Most people take whatever they see in front of them and relate it to something they understand. For at least ten years after Ford started building cars, people called them horseless carriages. It wasn't obvious to call it a car. They used to call the radio 'the wireless.' Innovation is much more about changing people and their perceptions and their attitudes and their willingness to accept change than it is about physics and engineering.

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

Innovation doesn't care about anyone.

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

Any year that you don't destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year

Changes happen when we go against everything we're used to doing.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.