Quotes About Innovation

If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.

I think someday, out in space, perhaps, some people might be able to grow some of their own food or hopefully on another planet.

I'd want to direct a video for Yoko Ono. As long as I got to work with Yoko Ono someday, I'd be really happy. I just think she's such a great artist - it would just be so nice.

What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.

CDs sound so much better than MP3s. I'm sure they'll come out with a better format someday.

Crazy may not be the one who says the sun is the center of the solar system, the Earth is round, and someday people might fly. It may be those who laugh at such words whose minds are lost.

As an inventor, it's a rite of passage to have an engine. I'd like to have my own engine someday.

Electrodes aren't the only things we may someday start implanting in our brains. Consider what you could do with a chip in your head that linked directly to the Internet: Within milliseconds, you could retrieve just about any piece of information.

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

When people ask me what it is about Brazil and my work, it's not something that I can say literally. It's unidentifiable. It's like when you do research and things inspire you. If you're smart enough, then obviously you don't take it literally. The inspiration will come out later somehow.

When you come into a pre-existing situation, you gotta have your own thing going. You gotta be really strong about it, and you gotta look at the older material in an aggressive way - 'I'm gonna make this mine somehow.' You need to put your imprint on the situation that you're in.

Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing.

The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker.

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

Play a jungle record from 1993 to someone in 1989 and it would have sounded like something so new that it would have challenged them to rethink what music was, or could be.

There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know.

There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn't seem right.

I believe that if you don't disrupt yourself, you will be disrupted by someone else.

You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.

I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?'