Quotes About Innovation

We say that we are the guinea pigs of our experiment, we are doing things on ourselves, and if the audience can enjoy it as much as we do then that's great. If they don't, that's not a big deal.

The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.

I wrote probably my phattest banging record with Knife Party: 'Pile Driver.'

When I was young, they said in the future that you'd just take a pill and never have to eat. That will never happen.

In many countries, IT is a pillar of growth and attracts a lot more competitive talent.

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.

If you have time-release pills, you could have time-release expanding cheesecakes.

Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones.

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

I could have just invited a bunch of my pilot buddies to go, and we would have had a great time and come back and had a bunch of cocktails. Instead, we wanted to bring in everyday people and energize everyone else around the idea of opening up spaceflight to more and more of us.

I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.

Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.

When you make a pilot, you've never seen the show before; you don't know what it is.

I think every test pilot's dream is to be on the start of something that's brand new.

If you go back and look at the pilot of 'Seinfeld,' no one would have thought that show would be what it became, and television isn't given that kind of chance anymore.

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

It was so freeing to branch out and work with people like Josh Dun of 21 Pilots who played on 'Savage' and 'Almost Had Me.'

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

'Out of the box' corporate thinking helped carry real American innovation out in a box. A pine box.

We won't be different for different's sake. Different is easy... make it pink and fluffy! Better is harder. Making something different often has a marketing and corporate agenda.

The reason I got into music was obviously because of bands like The Beatles and Pink Floyd, things like that.