Quotes About Innovation

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

Never give up. Never stop being creative in finding ways to get exposure. Also, prepared anytime and all the time. You never know who you will run into.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?

By the time Talking Heads were starting, my feeling was to throw out everything and start from scratch onstage; strip it down to as close to zero as you can get and then you can make it yours.

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy.

Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original.

A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the frontier of discovery and invention. It's a very exciting time.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

It's a great time to be alive and be a computer weenie.

And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more richly.