Quotes About Innovation

Songwriting for me is about zooming into the canvas, not songwriting in a typical sense.

When I made 'Satyamev Jayate,' which is a typical Hindi action masala film, people told me it won't work because only real cinema worked. But it was a hit.

Re: Invent is different from the typical technology-industry conference in that it's not a sales and marketing event, but about learning and education.

After a while I thought it didn't make any sense to use a pick. It's kind of like typing with one finger on each hand instead of using all your fingers.

After about fourth grade, I do remember borrowing my mother's old portable Olivetti and typing stories out on the back of photocopies of journal articles.

I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.

Our brains are way, way more complex than any computer we know how to make. They're way more creative. The input's pretty good, but the output is constrained by our tongues and jaws moving and us typing.

Dracula appeared at a time of great technological revolution, utilizing telegraphs, typing machines, and blood transfusions.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

All my life I have apparently been tying my shoelaces wrong, there is a much more mathematically beautiful way of doing it, that I was shown by Bill Nye - with Neil deGrasse Tyson looking on.

Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had phones in this country, and we were very late to the table. They're going to adopt e-books much faster than we do.

American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive.

I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.

We knew that iMac was fast; we didn't need to make it ugly.

A lot of my work is intelligent, a lot of the work is beautiful, but I make ugly things, too.

Stark was my late Grandmother's maiden name. When I joined the acting union in the UK 'Oliver Jones' was taken so I had to come up with something else!

I want to go further and make the UK the easiest place in the world to invest in social enterprise.

I want the UK to be a global leader in developing and deploying technology, but I also want us to ensure that the benefits are fairly shared across society.

Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as a touring ukulele player.

Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

Norman Lear is my all-time, ultimate hero. He's an amazing man. That's one person I'm looking forward to meeting. What he did, with shows and sitcoms, he's my hero.

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.