Quotes About Innovation

Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas.

What makes jazz different is that you can't predict it, it's all about freedom. Just when you think you know what you're going to hear there'll be a left turn, a jazz musician will change it up.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Tesla is changing the paradigm. We're going to turn the world on its ear and create high demand through design.

I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.

We will depend on American students who can turn their literacy in coding and computer science into creative solutions that address the complex problems facing our nation.

The holy grail would be to turn a knob, and out comes the nanotube of the right diameter and chirality.

Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.

Why can't modern tech companies both grow and turn a profit at the same time?

Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.

This idea you're going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many.

No ideas are harmed in the making of my books, by the way. All I do with my best ideas is run with them, fast as I can, taking notes and occasionally suggesting a left hand turn rather than the right hand one which might have taken us both over a precipice.

There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.

I don't understand how I can pay $299 for iPhone and then get in my car and still have to turn knobs.

Me and Future, we did 'Dirty Sprite,' 'Ain't No Way Around It,' 'Turn on the Lights.' Every time we record, we're setting bars.

At least before my hip replacement, I had a quick first step. I could get by you off the dribble. My business game is the same way. I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you.

My next thing could be something in hardware. It's never been easier to turn bits into atoms.

Exploring emerging technologies like new refraction technology will enable people to get prescriptions cheaper and more conveniently, which will, in turn, provide increased access to prescription glasses.

The one period of glory in NASA was the first nine years when they weren't a bureaucracy yet... and they haven't gotten back to that excitement, that adventurism, and won't. So, I would take most of the NASA budget, and I would turn it into prizes for private sector.

I'm interested in businesses that take digital bits and turn them into interfaces for physical atoms. I'm also interested in drones, Bitcoin, and 3D printing.

There's no more exciting moment for me as a brand strategist than a turnaround.

When you're in a turnaround situation, you cannot incrementalize your way out of it.