Quotes About Innovation

We build camera rigs tailored specifically to the story we're trying to tell or the shot we're trying to capture.

When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.

There's a real company in Facebook and then a lot of pretenders riding their coat tails.

Taiwan is a major economy.

Imagine a doctor in Chicago doing an operation for someone in Taiwan using robotic surgery. You want the doctor to feel immediate feedback to what the robot is experiencing.

Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can't always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.

There's no map for you to follow and take your journey. You are Lewis and Clark. You are the mapmaker.

Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

Art must take reality by surprise.

One of the things I've learned that has made me very successful, I think, as a scientist in general, sometimes you just have to take a chance.

Networks are reluctant to take a chance. They put on shows that they know will work on some level, but to get the innovative show, it's very difficult.

Playing it safe isn't fun; you have to take a chance.

Bloggers and stores and publications and brands and houses all need to sort of take a deep breath and relax because no one is going away. The brands aren't going away. The designers, bloggers, publications aren't going away.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps.

The landscape of the music business has changed and I definitely have to take advantage of that.

The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.

In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.

You know, magic markets don't appear all the time, so you take advantage of them.

One thing that I can tell you that we have not done very well is to build in broadcast capability into the network, and we don't take advantage of broadcast radio.