Quotes About Innovation

But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.

I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.

I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I've read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it's starting to become commonplace.

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.

It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still.

Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

If you find a solution with the Cube, it doesn't mean you find everything. It's only a starting point. You can work on and find something else: you can improve your solution, you can make it shorter, you can go deeper and deeper and collect knowledge and many other things.

When I first saw Dick Gregory on television, growing up in Queens, it was startling and amazing, because nobody else was doing what he was doing.

It's good to give people a jolt. If they're expecting one thing, it's important to give them something else. If you do something startling, audiences might at first freak out, but then they start to think, 'This is not going to be conventional. I'm going to enjoy this.'

I don't think I've ever made a claim to startling originality.

If we take a step back and look at what Snapchat is, it all starts with the camera.

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.

I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you're digging in deep, things kind of fall in, and you grab them, and you're like, 'That one!' and 'That thing!' and it starts to build something right.

Follow your curiosity, and have the courage to meet the challenge. That's where science starts, in my opinion.

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

Let's hope the Canadian public sector starts putting the blockchain on their agenda so we can see a significant difference in how government services are delivered.

The way I do it is there's never recording 'sessions.' One finishes, the next one starts. It's just continuous.

To me, a great company starts with a great product and ends with a great product.

I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night - that's when those creative juices begin flowing.

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.