Quotes About Innovation

How do I work? I grope.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

It's the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth.

I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.

The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

I think people forgot that there are still ways you can get the ball inside rather than just standing there and throwing the ball in. You have to have a system that makes all things work.

The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.

Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much

People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

Used to be marketing was viewed as the people with crayons and scissors who did creative work. Now it's seen as central to driving growth.