#ovation

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game. ↗

— Bill Gates

#game #innovation #nationalistic

The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#create #economy #federal #federal government #going

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower. ↗

— Gary Locke

#china #compass #economic #gunpowder #history

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality. ↗

— George Lucas

#happened #immaculate #innovation #part #quest

But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#bring #concerts #connect #each #festivals

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#calls #creative #current #education #innovations

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe - why, intelligence never built a steam-engine! Circumstances built a steam-engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#innovation #intelligence #beauty

Boston is known for its innovation. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#innovation #known

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out. ↗

— Max Planck

#die #does #gradually #happen #important