Quotes About Innovation

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.

What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

I believe in creative work.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.

We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.