Quotes About Innovation

A lot of the time people don't even know what they want until they see something new.

We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel.

A lot of sneaker brands come to me, not even just designers. They come to me with ideas trying to push different things, and I want it to be stuff that I feel is organic.

For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do.

I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.

I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further.

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

There needs to be an app that edits what I say versus what I want to say.

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

I have always thought that while it's wonderful to be the first to do something, you don't want to be the last.

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.