Quotes About Innovation

Know why people run marathons? Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human.

Whenever an art form loses its fire, when it gets weakened by intellectual inbreeding and first principles fade into stale tradition, a radical fringe eventually appears to blow it up and rebuild from the rubble.

They were expected to accomplish nothing, so they could try anything. Audacity beckoned.

New movements, no matter how necessary or logical, just feel wrong.

That kind of freewheeling self-invention is where big breakthroughs come from, as Vigil knew (and Columbus, the Beatles, and Bill Gates would happily agree).

encontrando en qué se parecían. Así que llevó a cabo un truco que le había enseñado el doctor Bramble: cuando no puedes dar respuesta a una pregunta, dale la vuelta. Olvidemos qué es lo que da velocidad, pensemos en qué te quita velocidad. Después de todo, no solo importaba cuán rápido podía ir un conejo, sino cuán rápido podía seguir corriendo hasta que encontrara un agujero donde zambullirse.

It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.

A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Il mondo ha stampato libri per 450 anni, eppure la polvere da sparo ha tuttora una più larga diffusione. Non importa! L'inchiostro da stampa è il più grande esplosivo: vincerà.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.

For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

Art is innovation, and its history cannot be written except from a distance sufficiently great to perceive form and form-ratio. One might answer that art today is still an incessant violation of codes. But how are those violations legible if no one code ever settles into common use, that is, starts to behave like a language or another convention-based system for getting things done; like a style, in other words? There can be no artistic innovation unless someone else is not innovating.

Everything is 'smart' now. The library cataloging system is smart, classification and indexing information entered into a uniform online database. People wept and lamented the loss of the old cards, then forgot them. They pretty much forget everything they weep over and lament. Clop-clop of hooves on the street. The humble art of carrying a block of ice up the stairs, pincered by a pair of tongs. Rotary phones and 33 rpm records. Stamp-pad ink and poster paint.

Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.

I think if you're ahead of your time, you've failed. I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.

Roll over BeethovenAnd tell Tchaikovsky the news.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.