Quotes About Innovation

One of the things I'm most proud of about myself is my ability to fail in front of the world. You have to have that attitude when you want to experiment in art, in music, in writing, or in fashion.

I've recorded a lot of vocals so far and I think they're kinda still in my own world, but I do have that urge sometimes. You want to push yourself to do other things.

Most people say, "I can't wait to retire so I can play golf," or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.

No one has any idea what's going to happen. Not even Elon Musk. That's why he's building those rockets. He wants a 'Plan B' on another world.

[Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than that, you sort-of have to separate the hardware and the software issue.

But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen

As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.

I really believe I know why my designs were better than any other human being, but I don't want to take credit for starting Apple, for turning the world around or anything like that.

It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it.

Obviously this is the next frontier - once you've mastered grilling, smoking is what you're going to want to do.

Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.

It's not really important to make skillful movies. I think expressing yourself really well, skill-wise, is not as important. I want it to be sort of raw and rough but new and fun to watch.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

They're trying to make fuel cells a reality. They want to bring the hydrogen economy to the United States.

I don't like to stick to one formula. That gets boring. I get bored, so I want to try different ways of getting inside something.

The only guiding principle you can use is to make something that you want to see.

Whether it's Batman, Superman, Watchmen, the 300 story, we just make stuff that I want to see.

It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.

The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.

Siri has proven to us that people want to relate to the phone in a different way.

The goal isn't innovation. The goal is effectiveness. We strive for innovation because we want to be effective.

The barrier between TV and movies has come down and film actors are willing to do TV and vice versa, because they just want to follow what's interesting.

I don't care for remakes. There's soooo much undiscovered material out there; old and new. I want to be original.