Quotes About Innovation

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work.

I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

Tech is a funny industry I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

Inspiration strikes at very funny times.

There are many other kinds of milk available. Why don't we try drinking rats' milk and dogs' milk?

It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

I'll tell you what I like about Chinese people: they're hanging in there with the chop sticks, aren't they? You know they've seen the fork. They're staying with the sticks.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

You can mythologize Steve Jobs, but really in the end, he was a kid from the Valley, with his funny little friends, and they made something. That's all he was.

I came up with a good idea... see-through skin.

I look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. What I'm not looking forward to is the long wait in the dark once I arrive at my destination.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

'Chappie' would be like 'RoboCop,' but hilarious. If you mixed 'Robocop' with 'E.T.' and it was... funny, that's what it is.

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

Yeah, the main goal when I'm writing [movie scripts] is to entertain myself. It's supposed to be funny, but then a funny idea can be turned into something else.

What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.

How many people does it take to change a searchlight bulb?