Quotes About Innovation

I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.

Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from.

Television has been breaking narrative rules.

These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.

You can get good at finding access in the entertainment business. But the ideas, the narratives themselves, they are the only things that are going to be of any value.

I think it's important that science just doesn't stay within narrow boundaries.

We never try to think in terms of any competitive product or company. If you do that, you just focus on a certain narrow area. Rather, we should think much more broadly.

I never understood bands who were only influenced by a narrow era of, say, five years of music.

Personally, I've got bigger hopes for NASA. I will stipulate it should keep putting telescopes in space so we can figure out where we fit in the universe, and it should also keep building those little robots that can and do.

NASA has made a difference.

Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space.

At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that's clearly why manufacturers are involved - it's such a good testbed.

'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality.

I'm actually a NASA brat. My father was a rocket scientist. He started working at NASA before it was NASA in 1959.

You think NASA is going to be cutting edge, but they've got so many buildings that are just left over from the '60s. It's old.

A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.

The folks at NASA really look at the world and try to envision how things can be better.

We want to grow NASCAR.

AI cloud is just very, very nascent.

We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not long after that, we realized there was another opportunity to help bring them together and tell their stories.

Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.

My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.

My entire youth has been Nasty Gal. My entire future is Nasty Gal.