Quotes About Innovation

If it works, it's out of date.

If you feel safe in the area you're working in, you're not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you're capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don't feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you're just about in the right place to do something exciting.

What if there was some kind of machine capable of working out the Entscheidnugsproblem? This was the germ of the idea that eventually became a computer, but no such thing existed at the time.

On the other hand, he did make a big step towards the practical creation of a Turing machine by proposing that the binary system should be used, once again based on the kind of punchcards

To pass the Turing Test the computer would have to do more than imitate. It would have to be a learning entity.

I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous.

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up..

the ability of the person to figure things out, to learn, to think critically and solve problems is more important.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

The first thing you see, covering yards and yards of one wall, is an object that looks like a nickel-plated nuclear reactor, but is really the stove.

Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.

New is America's oldest tradition.

The people we admire the most are rooted in nature, but have surpassed nature.

I don't think we were built to be safe," he said. "I think we were built to try things.

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.

We had to redefine our musical culture. Not only our musical culture, however: at the end of the sixties all German artists had the same problems. Writers, directors, painters … all of them had to invent a new language.

If Bowie ever fails, it's almost always an interesting failure, which is the mark of a great artist.

Bad design is the default mode, since it takes the least effort to create.

In 2013, for example, a seventeen-year-old Australian teenager living in England built a content-shortening app, called Summly, in his bedroom, which he promptly sold to Yahoo for a reported thirty million dollars. Now, imagine the next seventeen-year-old with a 3D printer, and you begin to sense the dimensions of the potential upheaval.

We're all designers now. It's time to get good at it.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.