So, what's the status?" said Ira as he pulled himself down to his couch. "Will is turning into a starship," Hugo replied, clearly only half in jest. "We're about to watch history in the making."

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. ― Pablo Picasso

By looking on the bright side, we'll activate enthusiasm and turn on the go system.

Our society shuns people for being a bright light in the world. Sometimes if you are too futuristic people do not like how revolutionary you are

Mr. Watson - Come here - I want to see you.

If you start to do things that nobody does, you will get things that nobody gets.

Discovery Determines The System Of Education

Imitating recent successes is a game that everybody knows how to play. But seeing the next big thing before anybody else sees it is far more valuable... It means being a little bit wrong at just the...

life is a continuous journey of transformation

Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it.

Build roads never seen before. Build bridges never existed before. Build a society never lived before. It is all in your hands now.

Iconoclast, the neuroeconomist Gregory Berns

Steve Jobs had a tendency to see things in a binary way: A person was either a hero or a bozo, a product was either amazing or shit

A large, interconnected population meant faster cumulative invention – a surprising truth even to this day, as Hong Kong and Manhattan islands demonstrate.

The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be.

When people who run bureaucracies balk at change, they are usually acting in the service of what they think is right. Many of the rules that people find onerous and bureaucratic were put in place to...

All those who'd volunteered to be "idea advocates" were called in to work with Tom and his team to hone their pitches. Then, they began making them to me, John, and our general manager, Jim Morris -...

Stupid races don't build spaceships!

Without a scientist, there is no future. The handsome and attractive characters may earn society's admiration, but all the wonderful inventions related to the future are the result of the work of...

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

Robert Goddard, the father of American rocket science

Most breakthroughs in performance {and appearance} enhancement start with animals and go through the following adoption curve: Racehorses → AIDS patients {because of muscle wasting} and bodybuilders...

Eddy Cue, who was in charge of the store, predicted that Apple would sell a million songs in six months. Instead, the iTunes Store sold a million songs in six days.

By this point Jobs had poured close to $50 million of his own money into Pixar - more than half of what he had pocketed when he cashed out of Apple - and he was still losing money at NeXT. He was hard...

That goes a step too far, I think. Leonardo did not invent the scientific method, nor did Aristotle or Alhazen or Galileo or any Bacon. But his uncanny abilities to engage in the dialogue between...

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, This sucks. I'm going to do my own thing.

Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of...

Many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

The Innovators, Isaacson later

New things, new ideas arrived and strutted their stuff and were vilified by some and then lo! that which had been a monster was suddenly totally important to the world.