Quotes About Innovation

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

The great companies get built by their founders

What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

Predictability and great design are not friends.

Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.

Many great ideas need refreshment and deeper analysis. "Freedom," for example, is a great idea but it has become a cliché.

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.