Quotes About Innovation

We believe that innovative authors are more likely to come from people who are independent and won't work in a software 'factory' or 'bureaucracy.

Inherently, Larry & Serge aren't paper-oriented - they're product oriented. If they have another 10 minutes, they want to make something better. They don't want to take 10 minutes to tell you something they did. - Terry Winograd

Hackers can do almost anything and be a hacker. You can be a hacker carpenter. It's not necessarily high tech. I think it has to do with craftsmanship and caring about what you're doing.

Kay himself has conceded that technological wizards generally fall into two categories: the Michelangelo types who dream of Sistine Chapels and then actually spend years building them, and the da Vincis, who have a million ideas but seldom finish anything themselves.

If necessity is the mother of invention, drug use is surely its can-do father.

Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.

Volume 2 will begin with Cervantes and end with the most interesting novel of 2012.

Finally, while I don't want to disparage the traditional novel--I still prefer Dickens's Great Expectations over Kathy Acker's Great Expectations, though I'll take Lauren Fairbanks's Sister Carrie over Dreiser's any day--there's a whole other world of novels out there most people never even hear of, much less read. Let's go see.

And if the novel [ The Education of Cyrus ] remains dull by modern standards, we have to remind ourselves Xenophon didn't set out to write a "novel" — there was no such thing yet in his culture — but was feeling his way to a new form somewhere between factual history and fanciful epic. Our hat is always off to innovators.

So we'll leave him [Plato] to the philosophers and not try to make a novelist of him against his will; he excluded innovative artists from his ideal republic, so we'll exclude him from our republic of fiction.

Pop music has progressed.

Dac? o idee pare muribund? sau, pur ?i simplu, irelevant?, poate c? nu-i trebuie decât s? fie introdus? într-un context cu totul nou pentru a fi trezit? iar??i la via??.

Doar pentru c? nu ?tim cum func?ioneaz? un anumit lucru, asta nu înseamn? c? nu func?ioneaz?.

If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

A product can be differentiated from the competition by creative advertising and promotion, even if competing products are physically identical.

A distribution strategy can differentiate your product from the crowd.

Goal setting is paramount in developing a promotional campaign.

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me. Steven Spielberg

I don't dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living.