Quotes About Innovation

As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.

I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative.

Locomotion can be uncomfortable in VR, but a number of developers have figured out how to do some subtle locomotion.

I like to put myself in the most uncomfortable position.

I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.

Familiarity is all the rage. And if you're doing something that doesn't have its rhythms preset, you know, everybody's a little bit uncomfortable.

I really appreciate Barry Jenkins as a filmmaker and the fact that he's always wanting to push the envelope and challenge perspective and make people uncomfortable in a way that doesn't seem like it's allowed anymore.

Yeah, I guess generally I don't want things ever to be easy. While there's some danger of doing something that loses your personal stamp on things, I'd rather take the chance of doing that and do something slightly uncomfortable or hard for myself.

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

Foul-ups in testing are not uncommon, especially when the test setup is being tried for the first time.

My whole career has been marked by taking on the toughest problems, bringing people together, creating uncommon coalitions to ultimately produce uncommon results - things that people said couldn't be done.

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.

Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.

I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t say what he wanted to say.

What has now become conventional in terms of digital marketing and the discovery of new talent was once very unconventional - and people forget that.

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.

If we're going to have an unconventional budget, we probably need an unconventional process to get there.

College is an environment designed to encourage openness - the ability to think of things in novel ways and entertain unconventional beliefs.

Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.

I like doing things in a very minimal, unconventional way as a personal way of saying, 'Look, I made a career out of carefully and craftfully, though unconventionally, making records on laptops and blown speakers.'