Nigel Farage Quotes

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.

One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.

Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.

Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.

I do believe that making a factory for innovation, a moon-shot factory, is possible.

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

When wireless cellphones first came out, analysts predicted that at peak, it would only replace 5% of landlines. They said the quality wasn't good enough. Clearly that was improved. I think you'll find a similar thing in solar.

You can talk good ideas out of existence.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it is a crazy idea.

I think that size is not the key to innovation. Scale doesn't confirm an innovation advantage.

Incrementalism in technology leads to irrelevance; what you need is revolutionary change.

Creativity is not a mysterious thing, it's a historical thing.

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

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.

No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.