Quality Quotes

In preparation for some other work I've been compiling innovation related quotes and realized posting some would be a good way to start the week.

“There’s a way to do it better – find it.”
- Thomas Edison

“You never change something by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
- Buckminster Fuller

“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
- Steve Jobs

“New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”
- John Locke

“Observe what is with undivided awareness.”
- Bruce Lee

“Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport.”
- Robert Wieder

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
- Galileo

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
- Thomas Edison

“People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.”
- Dean Kamen

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”
- Jan van de Snepscheut

“Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.”
- Albert Einstein