Quotes About Innovation

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that are nowhere near Disney-level talent or Disney-level budgets.

But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness.

The '90s were indeed a great time to be alive. There was a sense of optimism that I never felt before that decade and I haven't felt since.

We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator.

When you are in the field of creativity, you lose track of time. Only the flow exists.

A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.

Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.

Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever.

By the time everyone catches up with you, you're bored.

Innovations, which are the births of time.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

It's a really good time for California right now in music.

I wanted something where I could explore comics and music at the same time.

I want to make new and interesting music out of pop music in a way that isn't ironic. I want to stay sincere to the source material but at the same time manipulate it and take it to a new world.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.

For Kips Bay, I had a wonderful client, William Zeckendorf, who was willing to gamble with me on using concrete and not brick for a high-rise apartment building. That was very innovative at the time.

You become an actor because you don't want to do the same thing all the time.