John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.

You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something different so they can only go by something that's laid out for them.

The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

The thing about innovation in financial markets is they're always building on what has come before. It's a natural process.

I have no problem with the financial industry inviting the Trojan Horse of blockchain technology into their walled garden. Because I know how powerful the technology is.

Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new way of doing things. I think this point is fundamental.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.

The Homebrew Computer Club was the highlight of my life. I was too shy to ever talk in the club meeting, but the way that I could communicate sometimes was by doing good designs. I was very skilled at a certain type of circuit design.

Contentment: The smother of invention.