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Quotes About Innovation

I'd like to see the word 'entrepreneur' knocked off its pedestal. Being 'entrepreneurial' is something I look for not only in founders to invest in, but also employees to hire.
~ Alexis Ohanian
It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.
~ Stone Gossard
Peer review is fine, as long as you're making incremental improvements to a technology.
~ Lonnie Johnson
I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?'
~ Tony Fadell
My peers inspire me, especially being a newer artist.
~ Khalid
When you're from a boring town, you have to find things to do. It's funny: I always knew I wanted to make music, so I was always kind of ahead of my peers. I had an MP3 player by the time I was in the fourth grade.
~ Shamir
I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.
~ Joshua Ferris
If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.
~ Anne Sweeney
Why would you not have a robot that looks like Abraham Lincoln? Why would it look like an erector set? Why use a computer with a punchcard, when you could use one with a touch pen on the screen? Why a car, when you could use a jetpack?
~ George M. Church
It seems like if they'd given Bob Dylan a pen and paper in the cradle that he would've come up with a great song. I'd love to write songs like that.
~ Chris Thile
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
~ Jean Cocteau
The best ideas come from sitting down with a piece of paper and a pencil.
~ David Linley
I love my paper and ink, but I see the benefits of the iPad and Apple Pencil.
~ Om Malik
Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.
~ Robert A. M. Stern
If you give me an eyeliner, I can create 40 looks with that - whether it's liquid or pencil.
~ Kat Von D
Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
~ John Lasseter
Whether it's digital or physical, a pencil or a pen: line work. Humans are making things. And out of that comes the entire designed world we live within.
~ Jake Barton
When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.
~ Peter Levine
There's a character, Eon, I did back in the 'Captain Marvel' story. Eon came from a greasy smudge on a paper bag inside my kitchen being used for garbage. I went and got a paper and pencil, drew it up, and he became a character in that story. Things come from everywhere.
~ Jim Starlin
Since I was a kid, I always wanted to figure out how to make a bass line that was a pendulum - like, gravity would control it, and then you could make it play different notes.
~ Bjork
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
~ Douglas Coupland
I'm a business guy from Pennsylvania who has done a lot for the state.
~ Michael G. Rubin
Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.
~ Tim Holden
Pennsylvania has some of the best science in the world.
~ Katie McGinty