Quotes About Innovation

Our emergency liquidity lending took many novel forms.

In that respect, it seemed to me, the Federal Reserve was behind the times.

These sessions produced some of our best ideas, and even when they led nowhere they kept us focused.

If a means of saving Lehman did exist, given the tools then available, we were not clever enough to think of it during those frenetic days.

We did everything we could think of to avoid it.

however, I thought we might be thinking too narrowly.

I'm a firm believer in thinking inside the box. The first thing I do when approaching a new project is to give myself rigid guidelines and precise limits. That's how I begin to think. If I were told that I could create anything in any medium, using any amount of space and any amount of time, I'd stand in a field and scream.

greatest films ever made originate largely in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s—a period when Hollywood worked

As Gelbart told me about four months before he passed away, "William S. Paley said television was the best cigarette vending machine that anybody ever thought of, and that's still pretty much what it is. I'd just like to see it grow up, and really be the best thing it can be."7

Making a robot that simulates what a human does has value, but I'm more attracted to making supertools that dramatically amplify human abilities by a hundred- or thousand-fold.

Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don't over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.

Since Punk, no-one is certain what garbage might not become gold

It is a memorable and counterintuitive fact that the invention of the city came long before the invention of the wheel.

I'm not interested in trying to re-create what once was. That doesn't interest me. It's boring.

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

Conservative" means maintaining the status quo, and I think the status quo stinks.

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

With his genius, Michelangelo built many bridges of the spirit.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Le lingue straniere ringiovaniscono i pensieri.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.