Quotes About Innovation

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.

I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.

Observing is really the fuel to innovating, ultimately.

I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.

As a technologist, I'm obsessed with searching for the next killer app.

Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

I was obsessed with the idea that no two sounds on 'Oxygene' should ever be exactly the same. I wanted a heartbeat feel, something human.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

My laboratory and my obsession is about safety and building/engineering safety. It's not just a matter of saying we want the world to be safer; we have to create technology.

It's one of my obsessions to come up with ways to reimagine establishing shots in new, non-boring ways. Shots that have energy and excitement.

There are so many things that interest me more than standing on the stage of my own obsessions.

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete.

The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

In general, obsolete technology is obsolete for a reason. Monocles are no exception.

We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.