Quotes About Innovation

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

Fashion is a strange world sometimes. Amazing, but strange.

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

It's not always about working with the hottest artist. I sometimes go for challenges although people look at me strangely like, 'Why are you doing that?!' However, with a risk sometimes comes a huge reward. It's about having the vision to be able to turn a challenge into something, and then you win the Heisman.

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.

We live in a science fictional world with things like cloning and face transplants, and things seem to be getting stranger and stranger.

As a global disrupter, Uber is no stranger to conflict, and its instinct has always been pugilistic.

Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.

When China shuts down Bitcoin mining or Bitcoin generally, that's a huge strategic opportunity for the United States and that's something that we as cities should all partake in.

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.

Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!

It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET.

The secret to fundraising comes down to three magic words: before, more, and strategic.

With the 'Born This Way' album, generally we said, how do we find strategic partners that can help us with our vision? Part of that is about putting the music in places people wouldn't normally put music, like with Google and with Gilt.

This whole cloud phenomenon is gaining steam pretty rapidly, and it's really become a strategic imperative for people.

We need strategic strength for our industry, technology and innovation, a sense of security for our European citizens and common foreign and security capabilities to defend our interests.

Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to whole new place.

We have an opportunity to become a global leader in the clean energy industry, but we have to be smart and strategic about it.

Everybody knows: people, operations, and the HR component of Google is one critical strategic asset that we have.

At Amazon, we are very careful about what big strategic bets we place, but the ones we make, we keep iterating until we find something that we think has resonance with customers.