Quotes About Innovation

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

Hey, man, I toss a stick for a living. Gotta spice up that deal, y'know. Gotta stand out.

If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, let's go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios].

The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

Man might have identified fire, but women identified the way to enjoy with it.

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

Man, I feel like hip-hop is - first of all, not even only with just GOOD Music, I gotta say - I think hip-hop is still alive in a strong way, man. I feel really enthused about hip-hop.

President Bush announced a billion dollar mission to the moon and Mars. He came up with a snappy new slogan - to drill where no man has drilled before.

Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding.

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

Every day I would come to set [of Swiss Army Man] going like, "How are we going to do this?".

When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.

An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

Makes of men date, like makes of car.

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.