Quotes About Innovation

Think about cuisine: Most probably, your great-grandparents never encountered a market offering Chinese dumplings, Bombay lime pickle, lemongrass curry, tiramisu, and gnocci, but these foods are now an integral part of the modern world.

What I call bankruptcy of inventiveness is often the result of a failure to set aside the resources necessary to let invention happen. The principal resource needed for invention is slack. When companies can't invent, it's usually because their people are too damn busy.

The catalyst is important because the project is always in a state of flux. Someone who can help a project to jell is worth two people who just do work.

Vision is the sine qua non of constructive change.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

I've always believed that the most extraordinary results occur only when one feels unbound by any notion of constraint or limitation.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

I'm the kind of director, at any given moment, an idea occurs to me, I'll just do it.

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

We think the fastest way to clean the ocean is to learn by doing.

We're working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input.

I'd like to do something with Frank Ocean, you know, and I love working with Thundercat, and I'd love to do more with him.

I got a record with Frank Ocean.

I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.

I'd love to work with Drake; I'd love to work with Frank Ocean, Jay Z, and Kanye. The list is endless.

The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.

Deep ocean drilling is not new.

In Missouri, we built the steamships that plied the Mississippi. It was people of Missouri who believed that a human being could fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. And it was Missourians who built the capsule in which an American first orbited the earth.

Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there's so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned.

Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983.

You can make a really good film for under a million dollars, like 'October Baby,' or under a half million, like 'Hardflip.'

I know, being the odd one out can feel brutal. But, rest assured, it's also wonderful - because your desire to do things differently isn't 'uncool.' In fact, it's the exact opposite.

My life as an author has always been about brilliant, odd people.

I'm a fan of odd meters. For example, I've decided to sing 'No Business Like Show Business,' but I'll be doing it in constantly changing 5/4, 7/4 and 11/4 time signatures. I've found a way to make that work.