Quotes About Innovation

Doing something totally new is tricky. If you are second - and if you are smart - you can learn from the first person's mistakes.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

As an actor, I have tried to do new things, and that's why I have done few films.

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

I can remember the first time I tried to drive into the garage of the world headquarters of Ford in a Camry. It was almost like they wouldn't let me in. They said, 'Why do you want to do that?' I said, 'Because we are going to make the best cars in the world, and we need to know everything about the competitor's car.'

I love a good challenge of looking with new eyes at a tried and true recipe in my recipe Rolodex.

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.

People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.

I've constantly tried new things, even as a child, and have always been obsessed with pink. Now I'm just a little more ladylike and fearless. You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

I tried to - I wanted to work at Blockbuster.

Starting a company in San Francisco when we did usually meant it was destined to be a data-driven tech company. But that didn't seem to fully encompass what we wanted with Airbnb. When we tried looking through a tech lens, it didn't work. The humanity was missing.

When I started out, I tried out all my stuff on national television. There were no comedy clubs, but even if there were, I don't think I would have gone to them. I used to do stuff in the bathroom, and then I'd drive down to NBC and do it on 'The Golddiggers' with Dean Martin.

Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things.

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

We all tried rapping, we all tried singing, we all tried different kinds of styles and performances, so we naturally found our perfect spot.

I've been singing one kind of genre for a long time but have always tried to push to new auras about picking new songs or the same kind of genre but trying to sing it differently, treating it differently.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

I've never met a skeptic of VR who has tried it.

I have always tried to make life interesting for myself by doing different roles that connect mainstream cinema with its offbeat counterpart.

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

I grew up learning carnatic music but I also enjoyed english music so I always thought I could marry the two words and we tried the idea once and it was a hit.

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

My business partner and make-up artist Kim Jacob and I have employed every member of staff, decided where every desk in the office should go, tried every product on our faces.