Quotes About Innovation

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

When I came here it wasn't that I was anti-Music Row, but it was like I was going against the grain of what everybody on Music Row was doing, and that's what has made me successful.

I respect Virgin Atlantic's brave and challenging attitude and the way it goes against the grain, so I jumped at the chance to be part of the first ever Gallery in the Air.

I always went left to what everybody else was doing. I'm used to going against the grain.

I was a cheerleader in grammar school. There were no cheerleaders in that school I made them have them.

I see Grand Challenge not as the end of the robotics adventure we're on: it's almost like the beginning.

The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.

In 2003, my mom actually gave me a call, which is funny because she works at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, and let me know that there's a cool competition with robots across the desert. And I thought this was definitely something I wanted to be a part of. This was the first DARPA Grand Challenge.

Sci-fi gives you the scope to do grand stories.

Once upon a time, I liked to call myself 'The Grandfather of NXT' because I was one of the first to come up as I was, from NXT.

The only thing I don't like is being called the 'grandfather of the cellphone' because that makes me a little older than I prefer to be.

My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit.

My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.

I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.

I learn a lot from my dad and my grandpa, but I do things in a completely different way.

My family were all entrepreneurs, including my parents and grandparents.

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

Riskin went into directing and made a film with Cary Grant which applied to the letter all the ideas which had made his comedies famous. It had everything except that little something - and the film was a failure.

Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted.

It's important to show that creativity is in many different sectors, not just in graphic design or filmmaking.

Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

I'm a creative guy, artistically with graphics.

When we considered what to do with the graphics capability of the Wii, we put more attention and focus on the ability to create new experiences rather than the quality of the graphics.