Quotes About Innovation

We go into the studio with the mindset of simply wanting to make something great.

An instrumental album is something I've been wanting to do for a long time.

As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that I invented, and the laptop architecture that I co-invented, for their new laptops, cell phones, and other devices.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on the road of innovation.

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts.

A lot of games that preceded 'Warcraft' made the assumption that this type of game wouldn't appeal outside the hard-core audience, so that's what they targeted. We thought this type of game could appeal to more people if we made it easier to use.

A lot of the successful Blizzard games that you know actually grew out of failed projects. That was the case with 'World of Warcraft.' We canceled a project and decided to work on that one.

Bill Ward, when you hear his beats, he's not just playing a straight 4/4 beat; he's doing almost a hip-hop beat. There's a song called 'Sweet Leaf.' The drum beat that he's playing, he's trying to kind of swing and funkify it. Now, is he doing a great job of it? Maybe not. Maybe.

I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.

There's no such thing as a wardrobe malfunction - only a wardrobe opportunity.

I think 'Greenleaf' has taken television up a notch all the way across the boards - from wardrobe and everything.

Disco evolved into Chicago warehouse. Then there was techno; eventually, it evolved into EDM.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

Treyarch contributed so significantly to the multiplayer technology that's in 'Modern Warfare 2,' and they didn't really get the credit for that.

Warfare has changed so dramatically.

Modern warfare has become too techno-ish for my sensibilities.