Quotes About Innovation

Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

Without any kind of real ego on my part, I just thought, I'm going to approach the people I admire and see if they want to do something together.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.

I'm doing more than just making songs for the radio. I want it to be a well rounded sounding experience.

We're really at this point where we can take a step back and think about the next big things that we want to do.

Write the book you'd want to read.

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.

Design is the underlying skill that activates innovation. If you want to innovate, you've got to design.

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

What are you doing at the moment? How does that compare to your competitors? What do you want to achieve? How can you create something people want?

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

Start producing, some writing, directing is definitely what I want to do and I'll be doing a lot more in the future as well.

You'll hear people say now, 'Oh, I don't want to see something in 3-D. That's wrong, because what they've seen is 3-D done poorly.

I've always seen L.A. as a giant kind of laboratory for ideas in a caldron for concepts where you can try anything you want to and if it fizzles, so what, you try something else.

I think when you first get a job, you're just trying to do what the last regime did, just to keep it going, as opposed to actually doing what you want to do.

If you grow up normal, you'll always be normal-I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously.

When I open a refrigerator door and the light goes on, I want to perform.

We can all do better. America is an entrepreneurial society. We had entrepreneurs who started our country. And they want us to think in fresh, new, different ways all of the time.

Coming age is the age of knowledge. However rich, poor or powerful a country be, if they want to move ahead, only knowledge can lead them to that path.

People don't normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what's next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.