Quotes About Innovation

The Obama Administration cares deeply about innovation and about helping to make sure that geeks across the country, those coming up with new discoveries and exciting inventions - and creating jobs along the way - have the freedom and security to keep innovating.

There are so many rules about how you make a film and so many conventions that you can and can't do. I think people have forgotten that they are just rules that were invented for convenience - sometimes it is more convenient not to obey the rules.

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.

We have a double agenda of trying to deliver something exciting that people will talk about and will brighten their day and will amaze people and make us proud to have created an object of beauty. And on the other hand being true to the story.

Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

That has always been the objective of Apple: to do things that really enrich people's lives. That you look back on and you wonder, 'How did I live without this?'

When I wrote my book about Amsterdam, the main objective was to talk about the city's creativity rather than just its design.

My objective was never to make money. I wanted to contribute to human knowledge and betterment.

I'm trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least.

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.

Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities.

I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?'

When you talk about objects, one other thing automatically comes attached to that thing, and that is gestures: how we manipulate these objects, how we use these objects in everyday life. We use gestures not only to interact with these objects, but we also use them to interact with each other.

It's very important to put children in an environment where they can take things apart; where they can break things and then learn to fix them; where they can trust their hands and know their capacity to manipulate objects.

I'm a 'bright, shiny objects' guy. I'm always looking for what's next.

If we're going to continue making advances up there in space, then we have an obligation to do the same down here on Earth.

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.

The basic idea of a hackathon is to erase all routine obligations for the day so that employees can clear a mental space for creativity.

I spent many, many hours with my computer, and it really bugged me that it was very oblivious to my emotional state. And that kind of inspired and motivated me to build an emotionally intelligent computer.

I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental.

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.