Quotes About Innovation

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

Maybe [Iceland] could be sort of a testing ground for solutions because we are few and because we are really a tech-oriented nation. Everybody is a gadget freak. We spend a lot of time indoors.

I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, "I have a really great idea for a restaurant."

A lot of bands wanna do something new all the time and never repeat themselves, but I'm not so interested in that. If I feel like I can do it better the second time, I'll give it another shot.

I tended to do a lot of shows that were ahead of their time and didn't run very long.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

Aaron Spelling kept trying to bring vampires about, and I feel badly that it happened so much later. He was ahead of his time, in that regard.

Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condos on the moon.

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.

I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds

In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.