Quotes About Innovation

Just because a musician writes a great album doesn't mean they don't want to continue writing great music.

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone.

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

Choreography is writing on your feet.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

So when I started writing my own stuff, it was with a lot of combinations and time changes and power.

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

I do enjoy the form of things. I enjoy finding the form that seems best to fit what I'm thinking about. I don't set out to find a bizarre way of writing.

I didn't know the term 'synesthesia' until I was working on 'Cruel Summer.' Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.

It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.

I think Mozart, with all his impatience in writing, would have loved it. It would have allowed him to write twice as much. He would have loved a Mac. If he'd had a laptop, he would have been unstoppable.

Initially, I thought that Ethereum was a thing that would be used for people to write simple financial scripts. As it turns out, people are writing stuff like Augur on top of it.

To grow a melody? You can't grow a melody on purpose," she said, and slyly added, "you have to plant an accidental.

Oh, if necessity is the mother of invention, who is the Father? Fantasy.

Instead of always worrying about being efficient, I wanted to spend time on exploration, experimentation, digression, and failed attempts that didn't always look productive.

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

Questioners tend to be very interested in improving processes. They like to eliminate mistakes and make things better.

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