Quotes About Innovation

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.

I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.

Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

To succeed in business you need to be original, but you also need to understand what your customers want.

People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.

Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.

Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver.

I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

Many times I can see a solution to something differently and quicker than other people. I see the end zone and say 'This is where I want to go.'

That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be.

I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.

The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.

At Yale we don't just want to make new things, we want to make things better.

I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.

The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.

Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness.

When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas and can envision ways to make improvements.

I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.