Revolutionary Concepts Quotes

The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible... But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

All great ideas are dangerous.

I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

Think so big, so audacious that people will think you are crazy.

Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?

True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh, let’s just free the slaves.” ... Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people — usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time — had a better idea and articulated another way. That’s simply how evolution works; it’s the mutation — the member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they’re better adapted for survival.

Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them two or three times a week.

Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.

In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.

I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from.

What I am interested in are the philosophies of the future. That's what drives me.

The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas.

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

I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity) which are applicable far beyond physics.

But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.

I'm interested in people with very exceptional world views or realities.

'Out of the box' corporate thinking helped carry real American innovation out in a box. A pine box.