Quotes About Innovation

Because I know from experience that sometimes it's only the young ones that are crazy enough to change the world

Because I know from experience that sometimes its only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

Too much good taste can be boring

We are not looking for endless variety--we are looking for fashion." February 10, 1967, Memo re HAIR ON SITTINGS

Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize. — Diane Arbus, Revelations (Random House, 2003)

It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again.

Variety is the spice of life because it is the natural enemy of adaptation.

It is, in the long run, a good thing that machines or robots take over activities they can do, freeing humans for the things only they can do.

Generally any task that can be measured by the metrics of productivity—output per hour—is a task we want automation to do. In short, productivity is for robots.

It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the world in their own image. ---Carl

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking.

We shall live with what is, and hope that one of us is clever enough to think of something better. What else can we do?

What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity, that's what I think, while change on the other hand, is the cornerstone of new ideas. God knows I want new ideas and new experiences

But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist.

Babbage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention, a machine that would autocorrect his name to cabbage, every single time.

Not everything that matters can be quantified. What is tested may ultimately be less important than what is untested, such as a student's ability to seek alternative explanations, to raise questions, to pursue knowledge on his own, and to think differently. If we do not treasure our individualists, we will lose the spirit of innovation, inquiry, imagination, and dissent that has contributed powerfully to the success of our society in many different fields of endeavor.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

Rahm Emanuel told the Wall Street Journal, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." There was a short window for the new Obama administration, "an opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.