Quotes About Innovation

We're offered bigger, larger budget movies to produce a lot, and we don't do them. That's not to say there aren't exceptions: there are a few exceptions, but I try and stick by the rules that produce what I think is the highest quality, most innovative work and try and let the rules go that make us feel like we're retreading.

Our first record with Spandau Ballet went to number five - I guess we were offering something different and it appealed.

Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.

The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.

I can't imagine doing anything without being an improviser. I can't imagine trying to write or act or direct without what improvising offers you.

TechStars offers a network, and being a part of that network is an awesome opportunity.

My father was a brilliant inventor and businessman. He taught me to appreciate the opportunities that America offers to innovators.

Science offers the chance to cure debilitating and once-intractable disorders like hemophilia and sickle cell disease. But we need to make sure the ability to access these therapies, or the risk that someone can be locked out of them, doesn't widen gaps between the rich and poor.

I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role.

For the first two years of Eventbrite, all the work was done by just the three founders: me, my husband, Kevin, and our chief technology officer, Renaud Visage.

If my wisdom could get support from officials, I think society would move forward 20 years.

Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of normalcy who embrace things as they've always been.

Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive.

I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

Oh man, I always try to avoid anything that I can already imagine. I want the thing that I don't even know exists.

What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.'

What was called extreme 20 years ago definitely isn't extreme anymore. When I started, I remember people saying, 'Oh my God, I can't walk in that!' It was like, three inches - they look like kitten heels now.

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'

Kevin's mind goes to extremely interesting places. Every time we get a script, I go, 'Oh my God, I really didn't see that coming'.

Let's just cut a live record with three microphones in four days and talk about lizards and aliens. If I had taken that idea to even an independent label, I don't see a label out there that would've said, 'Oh yeah, that sounds great. We know how to market this.'

And what we're doing in Ohio is we're moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one that's diversified, including energy and health care and agriculture and IT.

Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems.