Groundbreaking Concepts Quotes

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

Originality is a return to the origin.

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet.

I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

I don't think I've ever made a claim to startling originality.

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary.

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.

We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.

All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered.

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what preceded it: to be original, an artist must also belong to the tradition from which he departs. To put it another way, he must violate the expectations of his audience, but he must also, in countless ways, uphold and endorse them.

In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.

All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it’s like, “Hey, I’ve got a cup in case we need another cup.” “Dude, you’re a genius!”

You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like 'Finnegans Wake' and Picasso.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.