Quotes About Innovation

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, by David Kushner;

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made, by Jason Schreier;

A good game designer knows that clinging to a few early ideas about a project can cut off the potential for the work.

Limitations are style if you make them so.

We had so much freedom—creatively, technically. No one was watching us, and we weren't even watching ourselves. What we had was our impossibly high standards, and your completely theoretical conviction that we could make a great game.

A bromide about the creative process is that an artist's first idea is usually the best one.

she felt that she had been able to push the boundaries, technically and narratively. And what was the point of making games if you weren't going to do that?

Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a novel steeped in nostalgia and innovation that follows three friends as they come of age in the world of video games, creating stories and worlds that enhance, redefine, and preserve their rich bonds while attempting to defy the limits of mortality.

People design very quickly on a monitor, and they print on some enormous industrial printer in a warehouse in a distant country, and the designer hasn't touched a piece of fabric at any point in the process or gotten her hands dirty with ink. Computers are great for experimentation, but they're bad for deep thinking.

Something I've learned is that when you don't have many resources, you have to be even more rigorous with your style. Limitations are style if you make them so.

The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind, A.J.

most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.

that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.

Maybe an old favorite like Old School by Tobias Wolff, though his time would certainly be better spent on something new.

Sam fully got what she was trying to do, but he also believed that she would have to do more if she were to make games that people loved, not just games that people admired.

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.

The first successful sanitary napkins went on sale in 1921, in what must have been one of the most important unheralded moments in the history of American women.

you're a whole new kind of fish.

As long as you can go on creating new roles for yourself, you are not vanquished.

Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

We cannot learn to fly by following the tracks left by birds in the sand. We must find our own wings and soar.