Building Upon Quotes

I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.

You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

There are a lot of good ideas out there. There is no need to reinvent them.

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

I take things that already exist and just push them.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

Anyone who writes anything on any subject is standing on the shoulders of 900 people who've come before you.

If you want to do good material and you're lucky enough to get a chance to do it, then chances are probably somebody pretty nifty will have been there before you.

There's something about coming up with something out of nothing. I work with somebody else's creation already, and I just try to make it better.