Quotes About Innovation

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

Technology alone isn't enough. To really get the money shots, it's down to being in the right place at the right time.

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular music of the time.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.

We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together.

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.

I'm not trying to say that I'm sick of Supernatural in any way, nor am I sick of my character, because he changes all the time; it's just nice to do something different.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time.

Every time I make a record, it's a gem with different facets, and every time I like to explore a different side. The core is the same, it never changes, but I try to create a different shape.

It's an exciting time, when you can make your movie on a cellphone. If it's good, it WILL get noticed.

I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.

A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.