Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

I get asked all the time, What do you do differently than 10 years ago, or what will you do differently in the years to come?' In the years to come, I have no idea.

While I can't tell you what people are going to do for work 100 years from now, the future doesn't hinge on my imagination.

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.

I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage the will of our imaginations and imagine another way of being in the world.

If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day.

You gotta imagine what's never been.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

The avant-garde has always existed throughout the history of mankind. The good things from the avant-garde last and eventually, after many years, become tradition and people forget they were ever part of the avant-garde. The kitchen is a living discipline, always evolving, and there will always be cutting edge things that over the years, ends up being part of tradition.

We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art.

Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.

There’s a big difference between history and the future.

Breakthroughs are by definition unpredicted events. Therefore predicting breakthroughs is a particularly difficult business.

America has believed that in differentiation, not uniformity, lies the path of progress.

I am not afraid of new inventions.

We have no precedents to guide us, and that is a glorious thing, for precedents, like other guides are disposed to grow tyrannical and refuse to let us do anything on our own initiative. Life grows wearisome in the countries where precedents and conventionality is rule and nothing can happen unless it has happen before.

The new frontier is here whether we seek it or not.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

The social revolution of the nineteenth century can not draw its poetry from the past, it can draw that only from the future. It cannot start upon its work before it has stricken off all superstition concerning the past

It is well that the beaten ways of the world get trodden into mud : we are thus forced to seek new paths and pick out new lines of life.

You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

Freedom is the right to question, and change the established way of doing things.…It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. It is the right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire among the people. It is the right to dream-- to follow your dream, or stick to your conscience, even if you're the only one in a sea of doubters.

We live in a quickly changing world, therefore we must foretell developments, and reforms should respond to these changes