Quotes About Innovation

In response to the making of DSMNY, a change in the Chelsea store became necessary. My flagship stores always have to lead the way.

My father was a small business owner. When I was growing up, he ran a one-hour photo store - back when there were one-hour photo stores.

When lots of stores compete, the result is a combination of better prices for you, better deals for developers, and more investment in new content and innovation.

When I started out, I was more focussed on being creative and wanting to do certain things I hadn't done before. That's great if you're doing fashion as a hobby. But when you want to sell out stores, you need to be very sure of the balance between commerce and art.

You used to make records, record companies sold them, and people went to record stores and bought them. That's all gone now.

For me, I've always been intimidated by the computer coming from the era of record industry and record stores and buying records and looking at album covers, waiting in line for records when they came out and then ultimately being successful in a band where we recording pre-computer era.

We need new stories, but I am looking forward to 'The Dark Crystal'.

Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.

The kind of stories I like often comes from debutant directors.

We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.

We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.

Remember when Japan was cool? We used to run around with 'Mr. Roboto' on our Walkmans, 'The Karate Kid' in our Betamaxes and wore T-shirts embossed with the characters for 'storm sewer' and 'dishwasher.'

When I came into the mobile phone business, I was really the upstart who pretty much took the business, not quite by storm, but really made an impact on it quite early on. But it was from a position, really, of feeling that I was a last mover.

You know, another jazz drummer, Ed Thigpen, who played with Oscar Peterson way back - it was the first time I ever heard rivets in a cymbal. And then I heard that Chico Hamilton had them too, and I went, 'Oh, that's it. I'm taking that for my sound.' And it worked well on 'Riders On The Storm,' so that's one thing.

The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We want to see and measure storms - brainstorms, that is.

We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another.

The most beautiful products or the most elegant or seductive products, in my mind, are those that tell a story of a process.

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

I think that fashion, for a long time, has been in a prison. Without freedom. I think that without freedom, with rules, it's impossible to create a new story.

The basic story for Golden Spike is that we discovered a way to create do-it-yourself Apollo programs for other countries.

You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

In the Indian system of filmmaking, you don't plan well in advance, stick to a storyboard, or deliver only the scripted lines.

I like something with a really great storyline, characters, and concept. I like doing things that are new and cutting edge.