Quotes About Innovation

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea.

I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.

Don't forget I started looking at China a long time before any of those races happened. I always thought go east, not west.

We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.

By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.

Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

I wanted to create something that would live on forever, beyond my time, and out of that came Cashmere Mist.

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.

My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant.

We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

Every great movement and which the conservative movement is, of course, every great movement ends up being a little bit sclerotic and dusty after a time and I think they need new fusion of energy.

Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.

You're always working at the margin of what you don't understand, that's the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.

video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.