Quotes about Innovation Criticism

Abdullah ibn Umar

Every innovation is misguidance, even if the people see it as something good.

"Innovator" in this sense refers to one who innovates within Islam—who tries to change or reform the religion departing from the original,literal, message of the Prophet. This concept which was embedded into Islamic culture, became one of the intellectual barriers to scientific and technological development of literal islamists.

Gregory of Nazianzus

I desire to learn what is this fashion of innovation in things concerning the Church, which allows anyone who likes, or the passerby,… to tear asunder the flock that has been well led, and to plunder it by larcenous attacks, or rather by piratical and fallacious teachings.

From what is now Turkey. Once the Christians had become established, critics or reformers, were hard to understand as the Christians were a few hundred years earlier.

Billy Dee Williams

The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.

Lil Nas X

I believe whenever you're trying something new, it's always going to get some kind of bad reception.

Jill Lepore

Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics, but we gaze upon innovation with rapturous adulation.

Charles Babbage

Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.

Bertrand Russell

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Stanley Baldwin

I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

Innovation Criticism Quotes