Quotes About Innovation

Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.

I just love to sit and go, 'Let's just write a song and not worry about how it needs to be'.

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

When you're working on a play like 'Sloane,' that play works; you don't have to worry about that. When you're working on a new play like 'Little Dog,' you have no clue if the play works. You're exploring.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about what suits the song. It's using what's within your reach, but also reaching for everything you can. I don't know if I always get it right, because I don't know every sound yet.

I think if you believe in an idea, then you should put it out there and be as original to the thought as possible without worrying about the risk.

It's impossible to feel the creative juices flowing if you're always worried about the end result. I think really, really good work comes out of people being quite open, not stressed, really exploring, trying to be imaginative, without worrying too much about the end result.

Japan had an energy crisis. I thought, instead of just worrying about it, I should take some kind of responsibility to provide the solutions.

Rather than worrying about entities, we should worry about the trends in technology that may cause disruptions... if we get so paranoid that banking is no longer going to exist and banks are going to get disrupted, I think that is a different worry.

Employees have been worrying about the rising tide of automation for 200 years now, and for 200 years employers have been assuring them that new jobs will naturally materialize to take their place.

Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

Worrying about how you're going to make something is a huge constraint - most people can't make anything at home because it's too expensive.

Instead of worrying about potential disruption, brands can be creative societal disruptors - because their consumers will be right there by their side as committed partners in a better life.

I write my scripts on a whim, without worrying about plot points and graphs.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

Information technology and the Internet are rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our lives - some for better, some for worse.

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.