Quotes About Innovation

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

Nothing's ever entirely new. It's more a matter of what gets picked up from the past at each time.

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

I do believe motion pictures are the significant art form of our time. And I think the main reason is, they're an art form of movement, as opposed to static art forms of previous times.

People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

Become one of those people who work hard, invest and build, and at the same time create employment and opportunities for others.

It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas.

THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can add value.

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

It is interesting to note how often a technological development—such as Gutenberg's—promotes rather than eliminates that which it is supposed to supersede.

A fix-it man, they used to call it, when things still got fixed instead of just junked. If