Quotes About Innovation

normally he enjoys his job, but yesterday the product managers asked him for something he considers a bad idea.

When stealing from other players, an older musician wisely advised me, choose a different instrument from your own, and people won't notice the theft.

Western musicians had to choose between creating sounds and playing notes—and they opted for the latter. But African musicians never got enlightened (or is corrupted the better word?) by Pythagorean thinking.

Looking back at the first century of jazz's history, its most identifiable trademark may simply be this unwillingness to sit still, this mandate to absorb other sounds and influences, this destiny as a music of flux and fusion.

Growl it, smear it, flat it, sharp it, do anything you want to it.

Maybe we need an injection of Africanized soundscapes—let's even call it a new jazz revolution!—all over again.

Dizzy Gillespie recorded it with Charlie Parker in an influential 1945 track (incorporating a much imitated intro—perhaps initially intended as a parody of Rachmaninoff 's Prelude in C-Sharp Minor

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

just as energy is the basis of life itself,and ideas the source of innovation,so is innovation the vital spark of all human change,improvement and progress

There could be no picture making," the film director Orson Welles flatly declared, "without pastrami.

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

schools as we know them appear designed at every level to sabotage the supposed goals of education.

I didn't invent the middle finger, but I perfected the use of it.

When it comes to making art, our intuition is often light-years ahead of our intellect.

the screen and keyboard account for much of computers' weight. The intelligent part of a computer is a thousand times smaller than a Gucci buckle.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.

Spain started to generate a very good playing style from Pep Guardiola's arrival at Barcelona.

As the owner of the Arison Group, a philanthropic and business enterprise that spans across 40 countries in 5 continents, my ongoing challenge is to bridge the gap between what I envision and its understanding and practical implementation. The Arison Group operates to realize the overall vision of Doing Good.

When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do.