Quotes About Innovation

We invented television and stuck with it for 50 years, and then I decided to get out of that. I would like people to know that we are broader than consumer electronics.

If you are a new, upcoming designer, you've got to think of new, cool ways to make the industry look at you. Don't just get stuck in a rut, show your clothes, and be like, 'You should like this.'

I never want to get stuck in the box.

The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it.

I just don't want to be one of those guys that's stuck fighting the same opponents again and again.

You make a record like 'Jump,' people are stuck in that world. They want you to keep making records like 'Jump.' People don't understand that you got to move on; you got to do something else. You have to evolve and go to something else. And most of the time, when it's time for you to move, other people are not prepared for that move.

One of the instruments that really stuck out to me was the talking drum, which is basically the first type of communication device. It's a drum you put on your shoulder, and you can pitch it with your arm, and you can 'talk' with it.

When I was a graduate student in computer science in the early 2000s, computers were barely able to detect sharp edges in photographs, let alone recognize something as loosely defined as a human face.

As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.

When we think about even the PC market and what is required in the student as well as in the consumer market, we want to be able to compete in the opening price point.

We want to take AI and CIFAR to wonderful new places, where no person, no student, no program has gone before.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.

Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a bad startup idea, like some student side project.

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.

I think what any student adds is the ideas they bring.

My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.

The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.

Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.

I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the Internet, I ask my secretary or students. I am lucky, because I have people who do it for me.

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.