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Quotes About Innovation

I want to stay hungry. I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less.
~ Alexis Ohanian
PCs don't suck. They're inadequate.
~ Marc Andreessen
Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly.
~ Steven Levy
I suck as a driver. I believe all cars should be piloted and driven by machines.
~ David Hewlett
To put it simply, it doesn't matter how many other messaging apps are out there if all of them suck.
~ Pavel Durov
Social entrepreneurship is like a butterfly, sucking honey from a flower, but the flower won't die. They're helping the flower to make pollination.
~ Arunachalam Muruganantham
For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.
~ Chris Daughtry
I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'
~ Madonna Ciccone
All software sucks.
~ Alan Cox
Every one of our films, when we start off, they suck... our job is to take it from something that sucks to something that doesn't suck. That's the hard part.
~ Edwin Catmull
I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.
~ Sebastian Thrun
You don't just go to your bosses and say, 'This sucks. I'm supposed to be winning everything.' If you have an awesome idea or a story, or something great, you go, 'Hey, how about we do this,' but when the story is not you, you have to find a way to make it work.
~ Dolph Ziggler
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
~ Edwin Land
If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm always thinking about maths, even when I'm doing other things. A lot of the time you're going up blind alleys and it's very frustrating, but then you have a sudden rush of ideas. You can live off that for quite some time.
~ Marcus du Sautoy
My general premise is not about selling clothes. If that's your end goal, then all of a sudden everything looks the same, you know - you start designing by numbers.
~ Virgil Abloh
All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
The beauty of 'The OA' or 'Stranger Things' is that they are both made by Netflix for Netflix. And so there was a freedom all of a sudden that matched our intention.
~ Zal Batmanglij
As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were going crazy. All of a sudden, something said to me, 'Put something like that on a record, and it will be the biggest thing.' I didn't even know you called it rap.
~ Sylvia Robinson
I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.
~ John Lee Hooker
I like to take on the thing I don't like at the moment. I like to find something that looks wrong or feels off, something that I would never have done in the past, like brocade. And then all of a sudden, if we can make brocade work, then we've really done something, because I hate it. And that's just a reference. I don't actually hate brocade.
~ Marc Jacobs
We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
At the beginning, Edo was a photographer, and I was more of a talent scout and doing styling and modelling. Then all of a sudden, in 1977, he gave me a Polaroid camera, and I discovered that instead of having to go to a lab and develop the film, I could just take a click and get a picture! It was genius, and I was very good at manipulating it.
~ Maripol
I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.
~ Dev Anand
If you have a Falcon Heavy, and you have a Dragon, and you have a Bigelow module, then all of a sudden, life gets interesting.
~ Bruce Pittman