Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

I think just about everything has been tackled, but it may be that things will be done again, only better and differently.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution.

You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to take something everyone already knows and make it a little better.

Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.

If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.

There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.

I don't want to disrupt anything. We never conceive of our products as disruptive - we don't look at something and say, 'Let's disrupt that.' It's always about how we can evolve this and make this better.

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement

Innovation means change.

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

You can put me in anything and I will make it better.

I love seeing the new generation take something that we've done and reinvent it for a whole new time.

You don't always have to start over to create an emotional reaction to your product. It's always powerful to deliver a breakthrough, but there's also a true art to making something great even better.

I always like to tweak things and push things forward.