Quotes About Innovation

The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.

The technologists and entrepreneurs I know are generally good people. If they were given a choice, 'Do your job and eliminate normal jobs' or 'Do your job and create abundant opportunities,' they would choose the latter. Most of them would happily even take a small hit to do so. But this isn't a choice they're given.

'Sag Harbor' was a very different book for me. It changed the way I thought about books that I wanted to do.

Sometimes I feel like what's hard for fashion designers to do is take looks from off the runway and actually put it into existence, into reality. That's really the hard part.

I think it'd be weird for us to do hard rock.

I have a hard time making a linear-idea song, because that's not the way my thoughts work.

Embrace your fire - even in hard times. A down economy can actually be a great time to start a business.

Successful musicians are entrepreneurs - they work hard, way beyond 9 to 5.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did.

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

What I do know, at least what I think I have learned from my experiences in business, is that when there is a rush for everyone to do the same thing, it becomes more difficult to do. Not easier. Harder.

Starting a successful company is one of the hardest things anyone does.

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.

The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years.

The hardest part about writing any song is, what do you write? And how do I rewrite things? You start to run out of ideas that feel fresh.

The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

Having a hardware development team in-house is a major strength.

Apple is all-in on Apple hardware and still wants you to be all-in, too.

If we're going to build hardware, the thing we want to do is build reading goggles, so you can do hands-free reading.

Hardware ultimately is a scale game, and it's a differentiation game. If you are literally selling products that are completely undifferentiated, like x86 servers, why would anybody pay you for that?

Because Apple's corporate DNA is that of a hardware company, its activities are meant to support hardware sales.

'Super Mario Maker' clearly is going to drive hardware. There are consumers who have always wanted to make their levels of Mario games. So that game will really speak to those consumers.