Quotes About Innovation

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.

This is not your father's marketing. Instead of "do it right no matter what", search marketing demands that you "do it wrong quickly and then fix it".

All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father's shortwave radio.

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

The 'Amazing' can only be created by facing fear, risk and failure during the process.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

My greatest fear: repetition.

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.

Neither fear nor resist change - cultivate it.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

Do not fear the digital world, it will not kill us all.