Quotes About Innovation

When the image is new, the world is new.

Many experts lose the creativity and imagination of the less informed. They are so intimately familiar with known patterns that they may fail to recognize or respect the importance of the new wrinkle. The process of applying expertise is, after all, the editing out of unimportant details in favor of those known to be relevant. Zen master, Shunryu Suzuki said, "The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.

Christopher Columbus should have set out to discover America with a boatload of madmen.

Too often new initiatives coming into a bank are perceived culturally as a threat because of the change it forces, and the bank reacts like an immune system attacking a virus.

Incumbents are admittedly iterating on the friction, but have to butt up against compliance, legal and risk departments constantly trying to retain as much of the friction as possible. It takes a really strong CEO and executive team to reform that systemic thinking.

Routine is necessary for efficiency; breaking routine is necessary for adaptation.

Waiting for the pen to dry up so he can start fresh with thoughts that are worth new ink.

Invention: I always wanted to invent something that would move around & make funny noises & would change the world as we know it & I forgot all about that until we had kids & now I see I came pretty close.

What could go wrong? I said & she shook her head. I thought you had more imagination than that, she said. —Fertile Imagination

I'm really good a breaking down a problem into small enough parts that everything falls through the cracks & voilá, problem solved. —Problem Solver

Cleaning that is environmentally sensitive is a continual process of discovery and implementation of solutions.

The practice of science happens at the border between the known and the unknown. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we peer into the darkness with eyes opened not in fear but in wonder.

United States spends more on pet grooming than it does on fusion research.

Rutherford, Bohr, Planck, Einstein, Pauli, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Dirac.

I take sounds and change them into words.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.