Quotes About Innovation

Jack White is an extraordinary person because he's like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead.

Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.

We're quite into graphics that are simultaneously two- and three-dimensional. But I can't really elaborate any further because it's not something - we haven't really perfected it.

I want to make music three-dimensional. I want to make a song also a painting, and a painting also a culinary experience.

If a university announced that henceforth, it would be offering a three-year bachelor's degree, in one stroke it would cut the cost of a college education and provide a distinctive way of competing for students - as well as put the institution on the cutting edge of reform.

A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

I remember when the Bic pen was controversial. They came from France. They were cheap, and when one was out of ink, you threw it away; you didn't dip it into more ink.

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.

I found that the flute was too limiting. Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesiser. Much later I threw the flute away; it was a sort of process.

The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all - they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw my work! They thought I was enlarging comics, or just copying them.

Our first iteration of driverless cars kind of drove like trolleys on a track. This uncanny notion threw people off.

For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.

Working with Thundercat was really a thrill.

I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple's tell-tale white earbuds. But I'm constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?

I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.

I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm doing and I think, 'God, I've never seen anything like that before!' And that's a real thrill.

If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.

I got no thrill from solving an integral equation, but I did get a thrill from building an exotic piece of equipment that worked.

I would like the thrill of making a new project every time.

Seeing something go from concept to execution is a thrill to me.

I love being the first person to play a part. I really get a big thrill out of it.

I became passionate about filmmaking. The thrill to make something out of nothing and to go out there to see whether it will work or not attracted me.

There is always that extra bit of thrill when you try something new, you get into it thinking you have nothing to lose, at the most you will fail.