Quotes About Innovation

I always write tons of different styles.

Without Tony Allen, there would have been no Afrobeat.

I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one.

With 'Fantasy Factory,' I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation.

With 'Iron Man,' I have to give Jon Favreau great credit for the score because he always said, from the beginning, 'Tony Stark is a rock n' roll guy.'

There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.

Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.

My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.

I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've released too late.

Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.

I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.

Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.

Cities are a melting pot for different ideas, and diversity brings a high-energy rhythm that I don't think we'd know was gone until it was too late.

These guys are playing checkers. I'm out here playing chess. When they figure it out, it's too late.

Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very little philosophical speculation about how far we can go, how much we could achieve.

Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

Too many people go into existing organizations and define success as recreating what is there. To be successful as a startup organization within a large, established culture, you really need to think about how you leverage the assets that are there.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.