Quotes About Innovation

We're expressing ourselves through references to anime and things like that, but SoundCloud music is just music that happens to be on SoundCloud.

I started off in this business in 1998, and I didn't fit in. There was no place for me, and I always felt like an oddball. Nobody really understood my work or what I wanted to do in my references.

Drag is all about taking references, taking pop culture and flipping it on its head.

Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

I was doing some research and stuff and reading about Bowie. When he referred to his music as 'plastic soul,' I was like, 'That is the coolest thing I've ever heard.'

Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.

I allow people to create, but I'm also marshalling everybody, which is difficult for my creativity, as I'm like a referee. Everybody else is kicking a ball. It is very messy. From the mess, though, you refine what is there.

Thinking like an entrepreneur means establishing a core audience of early adopters and constantly experimenting to make your product better and better. If your initial concept is showing promise and early success, keep iterating to refine and evolve your idea.

Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going strong for more than 20 years, and you can see why: It may not be refined, but it's full of beans.

I think what we do best, in the artistic world, are the things where we're handicapped.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.

Amazon may be the only studio that's run by people who come out of making independent movies, real hands-on moviemaking.

Teleportation would be the best because I live on airplanes. It would be super handy to be able to teleport around.

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

Markets don't allow you to hang about.

Ebooks had to happen.

'Logan Lucky' is an experiment. The problem that I think needs to be addressed is, what has happened to movies for grown-ups made by people who are still interested in the idea of cinema?

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

What is happening with automation and globalization, that's not going away.

What's happening internally is eventually what will take AOL back to being a growth company.

Anything new that happens, we shift and we change and we grow.

I want to affect culture. I want to have my mark on everything. I give examples of people like Bill Cosby, Quincy Jones - those are the people who I look up to. The game wouldn't be the same without them. What happens in the course of 5 years isn't really important to me. I care about what they'll say about me in 50 years.