Quotes About Innovation

Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.

I have a hatred of familiarity. If I feel like I am doing something I've done before, it feels old and done. I feel I have no choice but to strike out in directions that feel new - anything less just doesn't seem worth it.

During my tenure with Nintendo, we've pushed back development a number of times on key games - in the end, it's always worth it - because our focus on quality is so strong.

It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.

I learned how important timing is; having a really good idea five years ahead of its time is practically worthless.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

I just want to serve food that people want to eat, and show a way forward for the restaurant industry, for all industries. One day, everything I've done will be worthwhile.

An important fraction of United States industry adheres to the idea that research of a fundamental character is worthwhile from a practical point of view.

If it's a worthwhile project, no matter where it's created, it'll be competitive anywhere.

Tom Wall has the unique ability to extract, cultivate and realize a vision that goes far beyond simple bricks and mortar. He has an amazing appreciation of art and beauty and his designs begin with listening to his clients.

Karl Lagerfeld and Tom Ford are both geniuses.

Everything with Peeping Tom is kind of a guessing game. It's constantly exhilarating but also exhausting.

I want to find a niche crop that we can market to the world. Why can't we have the Almost Heaven Tomato? It can be the next Vidalia Onion or Idaho potato.

My favorite way to cook is to look in my cabinets and see what I have. That's the most fun. 'I don't have tomatoes, but I have this chili-garlic sauce from the Asian grocery store. Let's throw that in there and see how it affects my beef barley soup!'

I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.

Bjork for sure. Definitely, I would like to do like something with Tommy Genesis, too. There's a lot of people actually.

I spent a lot of years working for Ralph Lauren, and he had so many copycats, from Tommy Hilfiger to Abercrombie & Fitch to J.Crew.

I was growing up at a time when music was growing and changing so fast. I had learned all the big band sounds of the 1940s, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey. But then along came Chuck Berry, Les Paul, Fats Domino and I figured out how to make their music as well.

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me.

The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

The jobs of tomorrow are high tech and high skill.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything - why can't I?