Quotes About Innovation

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

I don't think I could write a straight drama.

I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.

Maybe I wasn't just the traditional-type person or whatever. I got to the top, but I got there maybe unconventionally. It wasn't just a straight line.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

Making new petroleum should be as simple and straightforward as brewing beer.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

I actually find it's more interesting to play in the niches and find ways to apply technology to relatively straightforward problems.

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.

I was honoured recently to accept the position of president of Mizrachi U.K. I did so because I believe our eternal challenge as Jews is both straightforward and also awash with complexity: How to sanctify the innovations of the modern world in accordance with our eternal Jewish values?

Most songs on the radio are so straightforward and it just doesn't open up people's minds.

It's perhaps easier to say what prog rock isn't than what it is: it's not three-minute pop songs, it's not straightforward rock, metal, blues or jazz, but can have elements of all them and more. It's a form that is on the boundaries of many different forms, that is open to all sorts of influences.

For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.

All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.

My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.

When I was working on the first 'Dark Souls' - as far back as 'Demon's Souls,' actually - I didn't expect the player community to come up with speedrun contests or any of the strange new ways to play the games.

I have lots of strange ideas in the back of my mind.

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'

To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.