“It’s very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.”
“One pays a price for innovation, and innovators, knowing this, are hardly conciliators: books are not written specifically to please others; they are written, like it or not, to please oneself.”
“The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.”
“For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.”
“In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.”
“Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics”