Quotes About Innovation

Children love making things, but they don't get the same opportunities now as practical subjects seem to be sidelined. I would love to see schools offering much more in the way of practical subjects to let children see what they can do.

My plan is to give new ideas to writers. They will come up with new subjects keeping me in mind.

Young photographers must experiment all the time and not be frightened of using light - freely-shooting straight into the light if need be - making an effort to get new angles on much photographed subjects, and also discovering chemical properties of film itself.

The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.

Back when we started, people didn't even know what a submarine sandwich was. The product was only sold in a few markets.

I live on an old tugboat but feel that having a submarine would be the next level.

I believe in creating ideas that consumers actually want to engage in, creating movements with our thinking and not bombarding them into submission.

So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is.

So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.

I don't want to kill ads. I think advertising is great, and I'm very aware that there's multiple revenue streams in television, subscription and advertising. But I also don't want to put my head in the sand, and I think the world is changing.

The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.

People are experimenting with streaming, with subscription services, whether it's a Spotify or a Pandora or a Rdio.

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.

The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made subservient to his wants and enjoyments; I allude to steam and electricity, under whatever name the latter may be called.

PCs will go the cell-phone subsidy route.

Industrial hemp is a safe substance with many practical commercial applications.

I think Chappelle set the bar when he came out with his show. To be as great as him or greater you have to push it a little further - as long as there's substance in terms of the material.

As early as 1912, we worked on the problem of the hydrogenation of organic substances with the aid of highly compressed hydrogen.

We can create new food substances.

Innovation, especially in America, is continuing at a breakneck pace, even in areas facing substantial political or regulatory headwinds. The advances in health care in particular are breathtaking - so many selfless souls are working to advance science, and this is heartening.

There's going to be a Google or a Facebook or a Zynga every three to five years. Those are really big ideas that do return substantial amounts of money.

The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

Anyone, if he has a will and basic knowledge, can create something substantial.