Quotes About Innovation

Britain is home to world class creative industries and talents.

Today, television industry means pool of young talents, and if you are not active in it then there are chances that you will be overshadowed by them. It is like newspaper where old becomes stale.

Every 5, 7, 10 years you have a new fan base. You always have to be re-establishing your fan base. That means you got to have a diverse menu of talents that give you all kinds of things.

We were always big fans of Hellhammer, but when Celtic Frost came on with 'Morbid Tales,' to me it was a game-changer in the metal world.

There is talk about the need for a second Green Revolution. However, such a revolution is nowhere in sight.

You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.

No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show.

As the media landscape continues to evolve, 'Conan' will continue to lead the evolution of what a talk show will be in the digital age.

Any show in its first season goes through multiple changes. There is little or no difference to changing the cast on a talk show.

I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.

What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?

The recommendation when I'm mentoring folks, I always tell them - and we talked about this last year - take a risk.

We've talked with over a dozen VCs and angel investors over the years. But we've never clicked with any of them until Andreessen. During our initial meeting, we were bouncing ideas around about where Imgur could go.

I was full of pride when President Obama talked about coding in his last State of the Union address. I was proud when Chicago recently made computer science mandatory as a requirement for graduation. To see this elevate to the level of a bigger conversation is progress.

All painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in introducing the precise and exact aspect of science, which hadn't often been done, or at least hadn't been talked about very much.

We began to do little things, have little scenes where we just talked about things that had nothing to do with the plot. In fact, in the beginning, they didn't want us to do that. But as time went on, you see that in so many shows. I think we were the first to do that.

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

The only one who is alive today and still being talked about is Pierre Cardin.

I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore.

For the first case I did with Octone, 360 deals were not at all being talked about. And then for the follow-up case, it was the focus. I wanted to see how things were changing and what the new challenges were.

Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I was into the whole Beat generation, Kerouac, etc., and all those artists talked about that and Kerouac, so I just got in the middle of being spontaneous.

I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.