Quotes About Innovation

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.

I brought a lot of the codification of womenswear to menswear. Why? Because when I was a child, I was wearing women's clothes adjusted to me.

One thing I always think about in making a market, and it again is something I have learned from Sam [Palmisano] as well, he always says, "Be first and be lonely."

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.

I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.

When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

Women will change the corporation more than we expect.

Women are not the problem they're the solution

A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

I wanted an idea of the future, a new femininity. I wanted you to feel that you wouldn't quite know where these women were coming from and where they were going to.

Why are women wearing perfumes that smell like flowers to attract men? Men don't like flowers. I have a great idea for a scent that will attract men - how about "New Car Interior"?

Are women necessary? Not with Ava around

A new cologne is coming out. It's for cowboys, and it's made from cow's manure. That way the women will be on you like flies!

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

Women need a space to be creative -- creativity thrives in solitude.