Quotes About Innovation

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.

I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

I'm a champion for personal differences. I have no sympathy for drug companies that can't figure out how to make personalized medicine. We could generalize that to 'All society should be much more personalized.'

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.

I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with.

In Berlin... it's important to present a concert that will change their ears... so if you present a Tchaikovsky symphony, you get almost no audience.

Subway Symphony is a little idea I had to change the sound of the subway turnstiles into different pieces of music, depending on what station you're entering.

Technology means the kind of music you can make on your own if you've got an imagination is amazing. It's crazy that I can sit with a Mac and a keyboard and a mic and create a symphony.

One could work on a lot of albums such as 'Thiruvasagam in Symphony,' but with issues such as illegal downloading from the Internet and piracy, it is difficult.

When Sean and I are old, we're just going to compose weird abstract symphonies.

I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.

One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you. They can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you. And in a multinational corporate-free market enterprise, it is the company's obligation to take the factory to a place where they can make it more cheaply.

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.

Everyone gets that second album syndrome.

I am always thinking that some interesting possibility, some accidental synergy, could occur in a collaboration, and people seem to like it.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.

There's a synergy with Dre and me.