Quotes About Innovation

I love the Marvel movies, but I always feel like we should be a step ahead of the movies. One of the reasons those movies have been so good and so successful is that they've been very good at mining the comics.

You know, by the time you get to the fourth film in a franchise you're really mining for something different. You're really looking for a way to go about things that the audience hasn't already seen.

I don't say I was the first, because, who knows, maybe there was a guy out in Minnesota doing it before me.

I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

The fashion business got boring. I was working with big companies, but the minute it became too formulaic, I got bored with it. I wanted to do a creative space where I could just make stuff - kind of like an atelier, where I could collaborate with other artists, drape geometric shapes on the body, make cushion covers, or whatever.

Asics has a machine that measures every single angle of my feet. With this information they made customized shoes for me and I have felt great the minute I put them on.

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

Thay encourages us to boldly reimagine an entirely new way of living and doing things, and to never be afraid to dream. And he reminds us, no matter what, to always work together, never alone.

The word creativity is closely linked to the word genius, since both words have the root meaning 'to give birth.' Essentially, creativity designates the capacity to give birth to new ways of looking at things, the ability to make novel connections between disparate things, and the knack for seeing things that might be missed by the typical way of viewing life.

Children and adolescents, being relatively new to life, are naturally creative because they haven't been brainwashed, so to speak, by the conventional attitudes of society. Consequently, students are always coming up with novel images, words, and actions that my delight, enlighten, or inspire adults....Creativity has not been the subject of intense focus, extensive research, or high levels of funding in American education.

dem Stumpfsinn sind immer alle nachgelaufen der Geist ist immer mit Füßen getreten worden

Aber irgendwie, irgrendwo ist das Abenteuer weg. Jetzt sucht man Ausflüchte und schreibt halt Stücke oder konstruiert eine Prosa, die die Leute langweilt, weil sie sagen Das ist mir zu blöd, drei Seiten ein Satz.

Someone had to go first, show that there was a life to be recorded here, that this place, this new set of possibilities, could inspire a new literature. Cooper set the signpost on the road, and hearty travelers have been following it ever since.

We want strangeness in our stories, but we want familiarity, too. We want a new novel to be not quite like anything we've read before. At the same time, wee look for it to be sufficiently like other things we've read so that we can use those to make sense of it.

On one level, everyone who writes anything knows pure originality is impossible. Everywhere you look, the ground is already camped on. So you sigh and pitch your tent where you can, knowing someone else has been there before.

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.

The businesses and organizations that succeed with AI will be those that invest steadily, rise above the hype, make a good match between their business problems and the capabilities of AI, and take the long view.

UPS are replacing fixed daily routes with dynamic ones adjusted in real time for weather and traffic—again with machine learning. Only cognitive technologies can handle all the necessary data. And at some point supply chains may be powered by autonomously driven trucks, which will bring enormous changes to that domain.

We refer to these companies' all-in approaches in multiple ways—"AI fueled," "AI powered," "AI enabled," etc. The common thread is that they are at the far end of the scale in their spending, planning, strategizing, implementing, and changing with regard to AI technology.

That was one of the reasons why Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center decided to work with Watson—to make widely available the level of knowledge of the hospital's best oncologists to the world at large.