Quotes About Innovation

I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don't think anyone would like it.

I find it incredibly annoying to just go out and sing the old stuff and write songs that sound like the old stuff.

I don't like the same old thing all the time.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

I think the idea of crazy goalkeepers is an old thing, really.

I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.

Clinging to old ways and fighting change is not the answer.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.

My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.

In the old world of business, there was often just one seat at the leadership table for women, two at best. That meant that only so many women could advance. But in a world where women recognize the power that they own - and where technology can upend the traditional rules of engagement - one woman winning doesn't mean another loses.

I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.

When asked to explain this space, I often ask people to forget pretty much everything you've heard about blockchains, crypto-currencies, and bitcoin, and instead dumb it down a lot and think about something no more complex or intimidating than good old-fashioned database technology.

For the next generation, focused on the future, the E.U. is as weird and old-fashioned as having a landline.

I think it's healthy for bands to discover new, older stuff.

I'm of the older generation. I accept the new technology, but I try to keep a bit of that away.

There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with everything. That's the dope thing about music now. Some people don't like it, more of the older people. They want to, you know, go back to old-school New York hip-hop.

The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.

I am the oldest young designer in New York City.

America is the proud possessor of the oldest extant written constitution in the world, which was for its time - 1787 - a highly innovative and important document.

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

1988 Olympic Champion Brian Boitano was famous for doing a Lutz with one arm over his head. And I wanted to build on that.

I'd like an omelet named after me.