Quotes About Innovation

I am not against oil multinationals. What I am saying is that you end up going to them when you are not able to develop your own technology to extract oil.

The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children.

Innovation by American energy companies has led to a glut of the lighter forms of crude oil found in U.S. shale basins such as Eagle Ford, Barnett and Permian Basin.

We need to move away from oil, period.

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.

It's fine if you're making 1,000 or 2,000 of an electric car, and I think there is value in that in a lot of ways, but it's not going to have a big dent in oil consumption in the country, or CO2 emissions.

If you write an original, it's like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it's like the oil well's on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.

Right now, oil is being isolated around the globe, and there is a major effort in shipping, trucking and otherwise transporting that oil around to a very finite number of refineries. Biology allows us to make these same fuels in a much more distributed fashion.

With the areas which have no oil, the idea is to create industry and jobs.

Oil is largely our energy past, and Keystone does little to respond to the actual challenges and opportunities before us.

Data is the new oil.

It's OK to make mistakes... Try different things.

The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're really going to mess up sometimes. But it's not OK to mess up a movie; it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor. But film-making takes a little bit of risk in every department.

When you try new things, you will make mistakes. That's OK.

Growing up in the eighties, you could go from one style in a movie to another style, and that was okay. In the nineties, you had to obey your niche. You had to follow the code and never step outside of exactly what you're doing.

People sometimes get a little extra criticism when they try something that they don't normally do, but I think that's just a natural thing for artists. It's like, 'Okay, I did that, and now I want to try this.'

I don't put any rules to my style; I think fashion is something that you should play with... even if you make a mistake, it's okay, it's only fashion.

I never paid attention when the LP became the cassette and the cassette became the CD and now we're dealing, you know, with MP3s. It's okay.

I am glad I tried something different with 'A Flying Jatt'. I will be okay even if I failed with this film.

Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.