Quotes About Innovation

The entertainment industry is a very noisy, crowded marketplace.

I saw Double Leopards play at my school and realized there were other ways to approach noisy music that weren't necessarily aggressive. That became a very important concept for me as a musician. I don't think I would have been that interested in creating and performing my own music if it wasn't for this group.

My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'

I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.

But I usually read non-fiction; I love Richard Branson books.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.

What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

Showers last only 10 minutes, but you can't do anything else in there but think. The shower is probably the main place I come up with ideas. That's where I came up with the concept for OneVoice, my nonprofit organization.

I want to change the game and break through the nonsense without any Establishment help.

All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.

I get that there is no one quite like me, nor should there be anybody quite like anybody else in any field. I've always said, 'Don't be the next anyone; be the first you.'

Trend-wise, I hope to keep bringing completely new collections to the industry that will make people think and defy the norm.

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.

Creativity is about taking what is the norm and expanding it and continuing to expand it and expand it and expand it and expand it.

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

Asking what I'd do without Loopt is almost like asking what I would do if I didn't have a smartphone because the feature set has become the norm for me.

The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it!

We are moving closer to a future where quantified lives will become the norm.

For me, menswear is an experimental ground to play with something. There is scope to be gained there - you can create a new normality.

Comedy shouldn't be restrained under the belt of normality.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

I did all sorts of things that you wouldn't normally find on an engineer's docket, but it made an educated person out of me.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.