Dave Davies Quotes

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

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

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

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

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

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

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

Change is always good. You can't keep tradition all the time. Yes, Grandma cooked on a wood stove but she would have used electricity if she could.

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.

I love recreating, and I love elevating - anything I do I want do ten times better every time.

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

Sometimes you have to get rid of something that's good, and tinker with something that's better.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.