Quotes About Innovation

La imaginación de los muchachos es un corcel, y la curiosidad la espuela que lo aguijonea y lo arrastra a través de los proyectos más imposibles. Movidos

But I can divine one thing: in Mexican food's rumble through this country, in the trail behind and the road ahead, I see us -- always evolving, never stagnant, continually striving for something better, constantly delicious. The American spirit manifested as a combo plate, heavy on the salsa.

Taco Bell, which he launched in 1962 in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey.

Farnsworth's innovation of offering multiple items on one plate, but added even more combinations. Someone at the restaurant numbered the different options, making it easier for non-Mexicans to order a plate instead of pronouncing each item on the menu, and the—pick your favorite: #1? #5? #15?—numbered combo plate became de rigueur.

If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research

nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it.

without these much maligned forces of destruction, language would never have developed in the first place.

It is not easy, she thinks, to make your way in the world while insisting on a new path.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

You know, if you're Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions, people on the Internet would say: 'I could have done that in half an hour, and it's been done before. What's the big deal? I expected something more from him.' Meanwhile, they didn't do it, right? They're still living at home with their mothers.

Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole... He just has a different OS.

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

Defy the crowd. The crowd isn't always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.

Change is the salt in the soup of life.

I love the old, but I'm intrigued by the new. And sometimes excited by it, too.

Creativity, we're told, is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Ah, la necesidad de copiar, de ser lo que admiraba, de apropiármelo.

Everyone knows that a place exists which is not economically or politically indebted to all the vileness and compromise. That is not obliged to reproduce the system. That is writing. If there is a somewhere else that can escape the infernal repetition, it lies in that direction, where it writes itself, where it dreams, where it invents new worlds.

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.