Quotes About Innovation

I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

I think that the 21st century will be feminine, that it's women who will, perhaps, find a way out for this world.

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

One resists categorization at one's peril.

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

Ideas have a certain gestation period that can't be forced.

Every city in America and in the world should be trying to grow its technology ecosystem, period. Especially if they care about their children and their grandchildren.

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.

I first met Miles Davis about 1947 and played a few jobs with him and Sonny Rollins at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. During this period, he was coming into his own, and I could see him extending the boundaries of jazz even further.

The '20s are a very interesting period to me.

The Seventies was a golden period for music, both around the world and in India.

But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.

When we started with 'Big Brother' and created the reality genre, no one could ever foresee that there was so much space in the genre that it could deliver so many formats. There will be periods where there is not enough new stuff to keep the genre alive. But it will never die.

AMD's history is we've always had great technology. We've had periods of time where we've done really, really well, and we've had periods of time where we've done not so well. But most of the time we've done well, it's because we've had a leadership product or some technology where we were out in front before anybody else.

I'm inspired by history, different periods.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

Since he was 17 years old in Atlanta, I think people always knew that there was something different about Key. He's obviously been able to adapt to so many sounds and time periods in his own way, which is clear from the long list of collaborators; but he has always retained an effortlessly weird perspective.

I draw a lot of inspiration from different time periods.

Working with a female director has great perks.

There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.

I would just ask you for one moment to imagine what today would be like if we had built on that landing by creating a permanent and growing community there and moved on to Mars.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

I want the least number of decision makers. We want to empower people to get more things done and also give permission to question orthodoxy.

I think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff.