Quotes About Innovation

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.

We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.

All directors are different. Certainly, the directors that I respond to the most are guys that figure it out by doing it, not by thinking or studying. Also, the kind of actor that I think I am - I learned about theater doing theater, not studying theater. I think that traditional school can be great, but also it can stifle original thought.

When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.

Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of.

I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.

And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions.

It doesn't ever hurt to try different stuff.

When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.

We used to sit around and listen to the radio and not hear anything like the stuff we like, so we decided to play it ourselves.

It is so easy now to never get bored because we have our phones with us all the time and we are always looking at stuff. I think when we get bored we are the most creative.

I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

It's a new game now, you know, you have to bring some fresh stuff.

You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind.

Sometimes just allowing yourself to noodle without any structure will enable you to stumble upon great new ideas, culminating in creating your own distinct voice on the instrument.