Quotes About Innovation

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.

Mobile is no longer about what you can do on your cell phone. Mobile is all about doing more, all of the time.

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.

I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

We have a lot of great creators in Square Enix, but for larger-scale development we will be doing more distributed and outsourced development to reach our targets on time.

The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way.

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

We led the industrial revolution, the White revolution, now its time for a cultural revolution.

Our space programme has overcome many hurdles. At the same time it is one of the most cost effective programmes. This should make us proud.

I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.