Quotes About Innovation

At a certain point, the services that you build around the hardware become more important than the hardware itself.

We decided when we were building Big Machine that we wanted to be a Harley or a Ferrari.

I feel there is no harm in recreating songs.

Harmony Korine, the screenwriter, was really into my early work. I did a lot of stuff under the name Sentridoh and a lot of 4-track cassette stuff that he was into.

I don't think I am avant-garde. I made a lot of creations and created harmony with my fabrics, but I was not like Balenciaga, for example, although he was, of course, a great inspiration.

You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.

We need to harness the boundless energy and creativity of our youth.

Back in our day, if you wanted someone to go up the side of a building, he had to put a harness and a cable on and really climb the building! For what it was, it had a certain charm.

As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature.

I mean Calvin Harris needs to holla for sure. But would also love to get Khalid or Kehlani on a record.

I was at Harvard when Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, and I begged him not to do it.

When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra.

Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college.

I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?

As snap-backs became more popular, I started to search and expand my hat game.

I'm getting in front of real, diverse audiences every night that I can, and I'm trying to make things from an angle where it's not the only thing I'm hanging my hat on.

My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.

I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.

I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat.

I hate cliche.

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why.

The album that really got me interested in how to create weird sounds, and pretty much changed my life, was 'OK Computer.' Funnily enough, my parents bought it for me because it was recommended to them, and the first 2 times I heard it, I absolutely hated it.

Really the greatest music I've ever heard I've hated the first time I heard it. It's been abrasive at first; it's been something that challenged me in a way that I wasn't fully comfortable with.