Quotes About Innovation

There's plenty to admire in the iPhone X straight from the unboxing. The biggest change stares you in the face: that screen, that screen.

I feel like there is plenty of room for fresh ideas, always.

Although technology has been playing a key role in filmmaking, I feel there are plenty of opportunities in other branches of filmdom.

There's so much in the world that has already been done, but there are plenty of things left for people who want to go get it.

What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that's still being written today. I just don't understand why you'd read or write that in 2011.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

It is very challenging to make a fresh screenplay based on a used plot.

I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down.

Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.

You don't idea your way into a plot but plot your way into an idea.

If you continue to plow ahead in something that is OK, you will miss the opportunity to do something that is great.

But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

I've got an iPod but I don't even use it. It's just that, you know, you've got to like plug it up to the computer. And then you've got to download songs. And put them in your playlist. I'd rather just get the CD and pop it in. I'm cool with the Discman. The Walkman.

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.

You go with what you got. That's the thing about having a system, then you plug guys into your system.

There's a phrase that art is something created by the few and admired by the many. Now it's not created by the few, it's created by anyone. They just plug in a drum machine and read some dirty high school poetry.

When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blown away. They couldn't believe the sound. I said, 'See, gentlemen, the world is no longer flat.'

At its core, I don't view Facebook as a social network. I think it could become the driver's license of the Internet. And beyond that, it can become the pipes and the plumbing upon what most of the Internet is built. I think it's very well positioned.

Galvanized plumbing was used years ago. Now we use copper.

Most thermostats are built by plumbing companies. But you really need to understand how to build a phone to make them better.

We are not like the social insects. They have only the one way of doing things and they will do it forever, coded for that way. We are coded differently, not just for binary choices, go or no-go. We can go four ways at once, depending on how the air feels: go, no-go, but also maybe, plus what the hell let's give it a try.

Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.