Quotes About Innovation

Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way.

Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only thought of it.

When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.

Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing.

At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

You got to do what's happening today in the world. You got to keep up with time. Keep up to date, keep modern - keep up on your toes!

After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.

I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.

I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.

Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.

Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.