The vast majority of human beings dislikes and even dreads all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen. ~ Aldous Huxley

There's a way to do it better...find it. ~ Thomas A. Edison

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority. ~ Andrew Jackson, IBD, 6/14/04

We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc. ~ Tom Peters

You can't dig a new well by digging the same hole deeper. ~ Edward De Bono

To innovate is not to reform. ~ Edmund Burke

We owe a lot to Thomas A. Edison -- if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. ~ Milton Berle

People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative." ~ Richard Saul Wurman

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. ~ Francis Picabia

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been. ~ Sam Walton

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable. ~ Helen Gahagan Douglas

We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic. ~ Winston Churchill

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