Quotes About Innovation

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.

Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather transforms it, condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds.

Well, back to the old drawing board.

In order to get [Mean Streets] made I had to learn how to make a movie," says Scorsese. "I didn't learn how to make a movie in film school. What you learned in film school was to express yourself with pictures and sound. But learning to make a movie is totally different.

There can be nothing more sterile than an extended conversation between two people who basically agree. If we basically disagreed we'd be getting somewhere.

Try to find a medical center that has a finger on the pulse of the latest treatments both nationally and internationally.

We want desperately to take uncertainty out of the future. But when we take uncertainty out, it is no longer the future. It is the present projected forward. Nothing new can come from the desire for a predictable tomorrow. The only way to make tomorrow predictable is to make it just like today. In fact, what distinguishes the future is its unpredictability and mystery.

Raise the question of what do we want to create together, even for an established institution.

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

La transformación de las clases magistrales en espectáculos a finales del siglo XX, gracias a los proyectores de diapositivas y recientemente (a partir del 1987) de presentaciones en Power Point no supone tanto una innovación como un resurgimiento.

If you find yourself falling into single-minded, repetitive practice of a particular topic or skill, change it up: mix in the practice of other subjects, other skills, constantly challenging your ability to recognize the problem type and select the right solution.

Pitting the learning of basic knowledge against creative thinking is a false choice

I've not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.

Trying to solve a problem before being taught the solution leads to better learning, even when errors are made in the attempt.

The headline in the Washington Post read, "You'll Never Have to Go to Work Again." The article described how innovations in IT make it possible to choose whatever location you want to do your work from. The year was 1969.

I am blind -- but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' . . . I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.

To reach beyond what you are you must ignore the rules and fashions of the day. Or perhaps better yet cast them way out in your peripheral vision where you can still see them but only as a vague reference point. This doesn't mean that all the rules are gone. It might mean that you adopt a far tighter code of conduct to ensure the necessary level of intensity and adventure.

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.