Quotes About Innovation

All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a father figure for generations.

I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because he lived in a revolutionary era.

Work has always been influenced by technology and will continue to be.

That movie - 'Airplane!' - it influenced so many of us.

I'm definitely influenced by Animal Collective. I watched them early on.

People compare me to the people I listen to, the people I'm influenced by, Andre 3000, Missy, Busta.

If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

I have musical ADD or something, and I get bored doing the same thing over and over. I love different sounds, different influences.

I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

Jimi Hendrix is one of the main influences on why I wanted to play guitar. He really shook me. I think it was his whole style - the look and what he did with the guitar.

I'm building my fan base around the fact that here's someone who does things a little differently, who brings other musical influences into country music, and you never really know what she's going to do next.

The Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young. For a brief moment, they were arguably the most influential aesthetic provocateurs in the world.

When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move.

What I love about low-budget movies is my interests and the director's interests and the actors' interests are aligned. No one makes money unless the movie works, and that informs every creative decision.

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

I realized we were going through one of the greatest revolutions that ever hit the history of the world - the information age - and I wanted to be a part of it.

I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.

Infrastructure development is economic development.

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

We have to face the fact that countries are going to lose jobs to robotics. The only question that needs to be answered is which country will create and own the best robotic technology and have the infrastructure necessary to enable it.

America's infrastructure was once the envy of the world.