Quotes About Innovation

In the information age, the barriers just aren't there," he said. "The barriers are self-imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers.

If we can get this done, [Doom] is going to be the fucking coolest game that the planet Earth has ever fucking seen in its entire history!

Please keep turning your dreams in for new ones.

If you and I really, truly wanted to change the world, we'd invent more words that started with x .

You do not need to be writing or painting or sculpting in order to be creative. You must simply create.

avant-garde , adj. This was after Alisa' show, the reverse-blackface rendition of Gone With the Wind , including songs from the Empire Records soundtrack and an interval of nineteenth-century German poetry, recited with a lisp. What does avant-garde mean, anyway? I asked. I believe it translates as favor to your friends , you replied.

New can be an emotion.

I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.

I'll go get the horse and buggy, you'll say. And I'll say, But I thought we were taking the hovercraft?

When he really, really likes a girl, he creates a font and names it after her.

Why try to angle together the wall souvenirs of our new-to-New-York lives, when we could invent new hieroglyphs to represent us?

Defunct, adj. You brought home a typewriter for me.

Harry's parents present the two boys with a canister of Binaca. We laugh when it's clear that neither boy knows what it is. How would we explain it to them? That long ago, when you wanted your breath to be doused with mint, you'd pull out one of these slim metal tubes and spritz a little Binaca into your mouth. Whether you were covering up booze or covering up a more general sourness, you could rely on this hissing blast to do the trick.

Science is a tool, and if we were an esentially kind and peaceful species, it would not occur to us to use this tool for destructive purposes.

but the creative juices dry up if they're not kept in circulation.

Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.

Ideas are like fish. You don't make the fish, you catch the fish.

Most of filmmaking is common sense. If you stay on your toes and think about how to do a thing, it's right there.

The baby boomer generation, my own, is content, if of the Left, to live out our remaining years upon the work and upon the entitlements created by our parents, and to entail the costs upon our children--to tax industry out of the country, to tax wealth away from its historical role and use as the funder of innovation.

It is more frightening but it is not less productive to go your own way, to form your own theatre company, to write and stage your own plays, to make your own films. You have an enormously greater chance of eventually presenting yourself to, and eventually appealing to, an audience by striking out on your own, by making your own plays and films, than by submitting to the industrial model of the school and studio.

And perhaps the sun, in search of novelty, will rise in the west.

Harry S Truman despised settled conventions.

Of course, to a true geek, the glass is neither half-full nor half-empty. It's twice as big as it currently needs to be, though a reasonable reserve margin is not a bad thing to have ready, just in case.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.