Quotes About Innovation

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

Being taken seriously means missing out on the chance to be frivolous, promiscuous, and irrelevant. The desire to be taken seriously is precisely what compels people to follow the tried and true paths of knowledge production around which I would like to map a few detours.

This is the history of un-art—the cultural productions that are not intended to convey beauty, not organized around the notion of singular genius expres- sion, not designed to sooth audiences and to confirm the order of things. Un-art comes to unmake worlds.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...

Ayn Rand was a genius.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

When you see something technically sweet you go ahead and do it, and you argue about what to do about it, only after you have achieved success.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

It is not possible to be original except on a basis of tradition.

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

Visual design proved to be a fifth wonder of life. Buildings, terra-cotta warriors in China, dams, and paintings appeared in stories of awe from around the world.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.

Whatever betterment we have today was carved out of a world of stone by men of the hammer, not men of hope.

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.