Quotes About Innovation

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.

There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static.

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.

I need to work outside government, on my own.

It's tough to say, exactly, what things will look like in three to five years, but there's a lot of work to do in just moving along the path that we've already set out.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.

Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.

(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.

We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

Work is an opportunity to bring something forth-to create something, complete something, invent something authentic and original.

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.

Constantly working outward, putting system after system inside the known universe, they were the bright hungry wave of mankind reaching out to gather in the stars.

The longer we work on the show, the more the writers just start surprising you.

A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it and then washing it, turning it upside down. Making it somehow blind.

People talk about the businesses of the future needing to be more agile and more responsive if they are to be successful. But this requires a deep change in the way organisations work.

It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.