Quotes About Innovation

For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.

Every work of art changes its predecessors.

If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.

I work a lot with a green screen, which is really time consuming. All the special effects are.

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person's job.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

Do you see how Jerry Heller made it work? That is how he combined what we did to make the rap music into mass music. That's exactly how it happened.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

I will work and fight for stem cell research.

The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new way of doing things. I think this point is fundamental.

By being able to play different styles I can get more work. I also learn so much from each of those experiences. It keeps everything from getting stale.

I kind of think I have the best job in America. I work with amazing people who challenge me daily. My job as a memeber of DoSomething.org is never boring. I'm constantly learning. And we laugh a lot.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

What would be the fun in doing things you know are going to work?

People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.

Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.

Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.

The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn't imagine living without it.