Quotes About Innovation

Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

I go to the lab and in order to interact with my postdoctoral students and try to see if I can shape them to not copy but to ask questions and to think. We have to have a little dialogue because you don't pretend to be the fountain of all wisdom.

One of the things I like about what it is that I do... is that people can have a little bit of pretend.

In many ways, we might compare to The Pretenders more than others, but still, we created our own category.

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

It's amazing how many things you can do when you're just pretending.

Pretending that the fashion industry isn't in part based on leather would be quite stupid of me, but at the same time, there is another way of doing things - even outside of leather. I don't use PVC either, for example, because it is harmful.

Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'

Perfection isn't everything, some mistakes are pretty groovy.

Mobile devices are kind of at the opposite end of PCs, in that PCs are pretty open and you can do a fair amount with them, but many mobile devices aren't.

Sure, Google's and Apple's ecosystems look a little different, but they are meant to do pretty much the same thing. For the two companies, innovation on mobile essentially means catching up to the other's growing list of features.

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.

The world's been pretty good at coming up with new ways of doing things.

To be in one band that changed the world musically is pretty good, but to be in two bands that changed the world musically, that's amazing.

The world doesn't need any more pretty good songs.

Obviously you can make a pretty good living these days as a crew member or a crew chief or as a driver. But the technology is expensive.

Well, I thought the opening of 'Hatari!' was pretty good. And 'The Pink Panther' wasn't half bad either.

It's cool to be a pioneer in something, especially in basketball in Canada, it's pretty good.

I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.

With 'Space Dandy,' you've obviously got your image of the space and 80s music, and blending them together is how I created it.

There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.

I think it's very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.