Quotes About Innovation

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

When I started building things, obviously I was pretty bad at it. You cant be good at it from the start, and I decided to just embrace that, roll with it, and turn it into something funny.

Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.

We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

I try not to write two songs about the same thing, although, on occasion, it happens, so I guess it kinda helps to change stuff up.

With 'Judwaa 2,' I captured the kind of market that I could have never penetrated into on another occasion.

Occasionally, you have to make adjustments and try different things.

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.

If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.

I've been thinking about 'The Jetsons' since I was a kid. But occasionally, you want 'The Jetsons' to come to reality. That's what Apple is so great at: Productizing things and bringing them to you so you can be a part of it.

It's like when you get sick of your own cooking: I occasionally wish I could write something that didn't come out sounding like me. All writers must experience that.

There are certain things that we can deal with by following the rules. But at times, we find the rules restrict you from doing the right things. On such occasions, we have to rethink - either you change the rules or break the rules.

When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.

What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.

I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end up with a skyscraper made of wood.

The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

And, as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect.

For instance, have you ever heard a square-wheeled steam roller ride over a street full of hard-boiled eggs he asked, and as he did, all that could be heard were loud crunching sounds.