Quotes About Innovation

Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

My particular focus at the moment is on the development of genetic algorithms and neural networks that work together to create computer architectural systems.

I think digital. I think digital and I was terrified about it for a long time. But I think digital because it gives so much more freedom to work with the actors.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I think - finding new ways of being poetic.

America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people.

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

Every work brings new and different challenges. Research is always helpful, regardless of whether the play is contemporary or not.

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

I always like to borrow bits and pieces of things. There's a line between jumping on something that's happening and incorporating bits and pieces of it into my work.

It's hard enough to get things to work in a musical way.

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

I want technology to work for me, and my readers. People get confused that technology comes first. The ideas come first. You need to use the medium.

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.

After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.