Quotes About Innovation

So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out.

The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

I don't go out and play football and stuff - that's not me. I want to think, I want to build, I want to talk, I want to create.

Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'

I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

People will buy the car just because it's a great car. We want them to think it's excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric.

It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.

Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.

You can do anything you want, as long as it works.

I cant wait for them to convert old movies to 3D. I am 100% confident I want them to convert Terminator 2 to 3D more than I want anything in the world.

Americans have made it clear we want to build a more sustainable future. I am excited to harness that energy and see what we can create together.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.

[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own.

Opposite the Half-Axe was the narrow-fronted entrance to a shop devoted to short lengths of rope and wooden poles a man and a half high. Tehol had no idea how such a specialized enterprise could survive, especially in this unravelled, truncated market, yet its door had remained open for almost six centuries, locked up each night by a short length of rope and a wooden pole.

Tradition was the last bastion of fools.

The Federal Communications Commission was preparing to grant the necessary authority to begin cellular telephone service, even though the technology had been around for more than twenty years. The first popular handheld cell phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, would appear in 1983; the size of a brick, the DynaTAC cost $3,995, and its battery charge lasted only thirty minutes.

On that occasion Halston told the Times that 'fashion is never made by designers. Fashion is made by fashionable people. If Mrs. William Paley wears my hat, it becomes fashion. If it hangs in the stockroom, it's nothing.

Look, I tried to get a paper route instead, but the newspapers keep burning up on reentry.

How many things have transmitters built into them?