Innovations never happen as planned. Gifford Pinchot
Beware when any idea is promoted primarily because it is ‘bold, exciting, innovative, and new.’ There are many ideas that are ‘bold, exciting, innovative and new,’ but also foolish. Donald Rumsfeld
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. Winston Churchill.
Technological innovation has done great damage … to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion. Fran Lebowitz
Innovation violates tradition – attacks it in public and steals from it in private. Mason Cooley
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship: the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Peter Drucker
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Edmund Burke
I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it. Michel de Montaigne
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. George Santayana
Great innovation should not be forced on slender majorities. Thomas Jefferson
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. Joseph Addison