Quotes About Innovation

I love to read the kind of books I write. Genre-breaking. Fresh-concept. World-building. My all-time top three authors would have to be Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Harris, and Pat Conroy.

Home cooks are finding inspiration in the past, digging up centuries-old recipes more familiar to the likes of Thomas Jefferson than Thomas Keller.

I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.

Alexander Graham Bell brought us the telephone. He owns the telephones in the buildings. Thomas Edison owns the lightbulb. Whether they took it and did things to improve it, he's the guy. Now on the dance floor, that belongs to Chubby Checker.

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.

Just think how much poorer we would be today if the world would have had half as many people in the 19th century as it actually did. You can get rid of Thomas Edison or Louis Pasteur; take your pick.

Niklas Zennstroem has a thorough background as a successful entrepreneur with extensive expertise in areas such as IT and online.

What I found was that I thoroughly enjoyed the plumbing of experiment.

It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses.

Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

The world is starving for new ideas and great leaders who will champion those ideas.

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

'Thou shalt not bore' is a commandment that should be at the centre of our ambitions.

The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things.

Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.