Quotes About Innovation

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up.

Growing up, a lot of people wore baggy stuff. I went in the opposite direction. Just trying to be different.

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

There's always opposition when you do something big. I do many things that are controversial. When people see it, they love it!

Whenever there is something revolutionary and new, there is opposition. There are difficulties in all parties, perhaps in my party, too.

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free.

I've made a point throughout my girls' lives of reading them bedtime stories about strong, innovating women, whether it's Oprah Winfrey or Frida Kahlo.

Optics can drive an economy.

Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism.

Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

I'm a genetic optimist.

I am a natural optimist, as entrepreneurs tend to be.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it.

I think, when I wrote 'Children of Jihad,' I wrote it with a very optimistic view of what technology can do. Today I maintain that optimistic view, but I'm also aware of the challenges we have. So I would say I'm not a techno-utopian, but I'm a techno-pragmatist.

One thing that makes me optimistic is other media from the digital world coming at radio. MTV tried to kill the radio star back in the '80s. And with all the digital services coming at us, people say it's a thing of the past - it's not.

On 'Overpowered,' there was a nostalgia for disco and early house music. But I'm a modernist and futurist as well. I do believe - and this is going to sound really pretentious, I know - that humanity will figure it out, so I'm optimistic about the future.

We're not going to see an exclusively robotic factory, but we will see the optimum use of robots and people.

I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.

I fell in love with this idea that you could press a button and an SUV would show up. That idea of bringing mobility to places where it hadn't been an easy option - that was a pretty compelling mission. It was a huge, huge challenge.

On the consumer level, the products developed by entrepreneurs help to provide more and better options that make life easier and more enjoyable in the everyday lives of the public.