Quotes About Innovation

You come for the money, you don't come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you'll come to the Barefoot College. That is where we want you to try crazy ideas. Whatever idea you have, come and try it. It doesn't matter if you fail. Battered, bruised, you start again.

The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

When Netscape failed, it didn't mean the Internet was over.

There are no failed ideas, just ideas that haven't found their moment yet.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

I always say if you're not failing, you're not trying.

SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing.

I didn't know how to necessarily make good robots and I was scared of failing to make good robots, so I thought I might as well make bad robots to kind of alleviate the pressure of that.

In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.

Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least.

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.

You need to fail quickly and learn from those failures to continue to build along the way.

The general direction seems to be becoming fairly clear to me, but every new piece is a small adventure.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

I really like 'Community.' I like the way they're allowed to have a week when they go crazy and use stop-frame animation or a different pastiche. There's an episode with a fake clip show.

I have fallen back in love with music, which has allowed me to get back to my roots and create sounds without borders.

All the things I have done at one point or another have fallen out of fashion, and there's nothing better than trying to bring something back to life.

Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.

Anyone can show exceptional leadership ability in easy times. When all's going to plan, anyone can be inspirational/excellent/innovative and strong. The real question is how do you show up when everything's falling apart?

The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

If you get the product and technology right, then the rest usually falls into place.