Quotes About Innovation

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

Todo eso que está inútilmente añadido a la pura necesidad, es arte.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?

How does one get famous?" the Joxter asked. "Oh, just by doing something that nobody else has been able to do.

Je moet dingen nooit herhalen. Dat zou een verkeerd einde zijn.

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

Those of us who dream about doing what hasn't been done are bound to ruffle feathers. Well, let 'em ruffle

It's not that human beings are resisting. Its that they do not have the capacity to start from a clean sheet of paper.

But you can invent a future that is not based on the past and is unrelated to the past.

Philip Amato, Hubert Dreyfus, Charles Wesley Emerson, Werner Erhard, Fernando Flores, Buckminster Fuller, Michael Goldstein, Martin Heidegger, Joan Holmes, Randy MacNamara, Jim Selman, William Shakespeare, and Constantine Stanislavsky.

You are shifting from … … "what's possible" occurring as "what's predictable," bound by the limits of past experience … … to … … "what's possible" occurring as what you say is possible and what you commit to make happen, based on nothing.

Replace "predicting the future" (by analyzing what's possible, benchmarking, setting objectives or goals, or making feasible promises) with "declaring the future" and making bold promises to fulfill it.

There are ways of entering the dream / The way a painter enters a studio: / To spill.

It became apparent that communications and computing served each other so intimately that they might actually become the same thing;

A YOUNG COMPUTER ENGINEER, known to be one of the most skillful in Westborough's basement, said he had a fantasy about a better job than his. In it, he goes to work as a janitor for a computer company whose designs leave much to be desired. There, at night, disguised by mop and broom, he sneaks into the offices of the company's engineers and corrects the designs on their blackboards and desks.

These turbines had been invented by a man named Ledroptha Curtain, who, as a young scientist, had published impressive papers on a wide variety of topics—everything from tidal energy to mapping the brain—until abruptly the papers stopped. No one heard from him for many years. Then one day he reappeared and founded the Institute, apparently having turned his genius to matters of education. There

Elsewhere the quest for a robotic lobster had taken a more sinister turn. The U.S. Navy was now considering plans for a beachhead assault that would begin with thousands of biomimetic lobsters dropped offshore from low-flying aircraft. Clambering over rocks and sniffing their way through currents toward shore, the lobster robots would search out mines and blow themselves up on command. Soon the Pentagon was funding robotic-lobster research to the tune of several million dollars.

Video Killed the Radio Star

the Prussian General Staff was a self-regenerating institution, not dependent upon the random appearance of great leaders, because — among many other things — it automatically produced outstanding leaders.

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'