Quotes About Innovation

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.

So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.

n Italia, sotto i Borgia, per trent'anni hanno avuto guerre, terrore, assassinii, massacri: e hanno prodotto Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci e il Rinascimento. In Svizzera, hanno avuto amore fraterno, cinquecento anni di pace e democrazia, e cos'hanno prodotto? Gli orologi a cucù.

For the name Barclay, you could use bar clay or bark lay; for Smolenski, a small lens (camera) skiing; for Caruthers, a car with udders; for Krakowitz, cracker wits; for Frankesni, frank (hot dog) has knee; for Esposito, expose a toe; for Dalrymple, doll rumple; for Kolodny, colored knee; for Androfkavitz, Ann drop car witch; for Giordano, jawed on O; for Virostek, virile stick; and so on.

All progress occurs because people dare to be different.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The release of atomic energy constitutes a new force too revolutionary to consider in the framework of old ideas.

Obviously anything that accessorizes or enhances the iPhone is always pretty cool.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great performance.

Don't find fault, find a remedy. —Henry Ford

leaders who do undertake a voyage of personal understanding and development can transform not only their own capabilities but also those of their companies.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

Man lives by imagination.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.

I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.

If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.