Quotes About Innovation

When I started out, the idea of wearing interesting clothes seemed to contradict the idea of being a serious artist. The first Moloko record, 'Do You Like My Tight Sweater?' was kind of a reaction to all that.

When we are operating in tight spaces and when the opposition are closing us down, players like Messi can help us to create openings.

So the Madonna thing, I wrote a song with Diplo, she liked it, tweaked it and then made it her own and it became 'Hold Tight.'

Creativity is messy and inefficient. But corporate governance needs to be tight and organized.

When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.

In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.

Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle is controlled by Amazon.

When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bowler hats. It was into this world that I launched my new ideas about fashion.

What makes our product work is the way we're tightly focused on messaging and being an SMS replacement.

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

these past 150 years are proof that technology will only bring comfort and convenience to us, not well-being.

When computers were vast systems of transistors and valves which needed to be coaxed into action, it was women who turned them on. When computers became the miniaturized circuits of silicon chips, it was women who assembled them . . . when computers were virtually real machines, women wrote the software on which they ran. And when computer was a term applied to flesh and blood workers, the bodies which composed them were female.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution that's hard. —Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission

In the creative world, ideas are worthless unless they are acted on.

It's easier to get forgiveness than permission. If you wait for permissions and authorizations, your ideas will stall and never see the light of day.

The problem with large corporations and their competitors is that they subscribe to the same industry magazines, get the same body of research and even hire the same people. The

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn: It can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the wrong person's brow. —Charles Browder

Prototyping is about doing small experiments at low cost, using what you have to hand.

The old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is very true for creative thinking.

If you wait too long for the perfect idea, your creativity will stay between your ears in inertia.

prototyping lets you make your mistakes and discoveries as soon as possible in the development process, so you can change things and move on.

Becoming switched on is about forgetting the "this is how we've always done it" mentality and wiping the slate clean

Walt Disney was turned down for a loan for Disney theme parks 300 times.